Ingenious Quotes

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And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any… — Bill Bryson
Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to… — Lisi Harrison
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another… — Clifton Fadiman
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful,… — Miguel de Cervantes
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all… — Robert A. Heinlein
The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the… — Saul Bellow
Next time we see you, youâ€™ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!â€ Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. â€œJust as long as they… — Libba Bray
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial… — Leo Tolstoy
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his… — F. W. de Klerk
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle,… — Walter Kirn
Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well… — Jules Verne
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. — Isaac D'Israeli
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. — Christopher Morley
More of Murphy's Law Murphy's Tenth Law: Mother Nature is a son-of-a-gun. Murphy's Eleventh Law: It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are… — Murphys Laws
Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature — Joseph Addison
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the… — Ambrose Bierce
Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had… — Coco J Ginger
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce

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