The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody,… — Nicolas Cowan Copy Share Image
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility. — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
“Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
Without question the AK-47 was a remarkable invention, and not just because it works so well, or because it changed how wars… — C. J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases… — James Burke Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries. — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention. — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is… — Richard Blackmore Copy Share Image
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things,… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself. — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness,… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the… — Dick Rutan Copy Share Image
The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought — Derrick de Kerckhove Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
