Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs? — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves. — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of… — Beano Cook Copy Share Image
“The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
You know the expression, 'Necessity is the mother of Invention'? It's gotten completely reversed. Now, it's 'Invention is the mother of Necessity.'… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in… — George Burns Copy Share Image
“We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just… — James Jorash Copy Share Image
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death… — Steve Jobs 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“Invention: I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we… — Brian Andreas 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
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers,… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of… — John Owen Copy Share Image