As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is… — Joe Kelly Copy Share Image
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian 'invention' of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did,… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I could never have predicted the invention of streaming, the rerelease of the show Gilmore Girls on Netflix, and that people still… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of. — Richard Ouzounian Copy Share Image
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes Copy Share Image
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
