Contraptions Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

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
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
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
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
Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting. — Tom Waits
He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her. — Dave Eggers
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
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
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
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare
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

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