Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have… — Alanna Ubach Copy Share Image
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process,… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor Copy Share Image
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it.… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I have such a witness in my spirit that God is releasing entrepreneur giftings. He is and you might be receiving one.… — Patricia King Copy Share Image
Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the… — Charles Holland Duell Copy Share Image
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
