We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more… — Herbert York Copy Share Image
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All these things, social media or [smart] phones or the things that distract us from each other, are fairly new. They're all… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The notion, the invention of a country, is fairly new in the history of mankind. We tend to forget that. We want… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind.… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our… — John M. Tyler Copy Share Image
Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
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