Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard Copy Share Image
Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions… — David Spade Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to… — Maggie Carey Copy Share Image
We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone -… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I’d love to see: A vending machine that dispenses cats for petting on your lunch break. Instead of money, the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction. — Jane Garmey Copy Share Image
God had infinite time to give us… He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing… — Steve Krug Copy Share Image
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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