Contraptions Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as…
— Morris K. Jessup
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Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids…
— Aldo Leopold
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these…
— John Jay Chapman
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The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and…
— Billy Gibbons
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Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
— Tom Waits
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He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.
— Dave Eggers
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Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They…
— Ilona Andrews
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That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish…
— Erin Morgenstern
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It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all…
— Stefan Petrucha
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
— Henri Poincare
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Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
Who Wrote These Contraptions Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Contraptions Quotes as follows: