"He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with…" — Dave Eggers

More Contraptions Quotes

This quote is filed under Contraptions Quotes, one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good… — Morris K. Jessup
• Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of… — Aldo Leopold
• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing… — John Jay Chapman
• The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a… — Billy Gibbons
• Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting. — Tom Waits
• Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as… — Ilona Andrews
• That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They… — Erin Morgenstern
• It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you… — 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… — Lawrence M. Krauss

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