Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos! — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“If you’re struggling to “think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected… — Samuel D. Warren Copy Share Image
It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image