Humour Quote by David Carr Download Open image ““Necessity is a mother.”” — David Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humour Mother Parenting
“Necessity is the mother of invention. She’s also my mother, though Invention and I have different dads.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice and monstrosity… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her… — Darien Fawkes Copy Share Image
“I see the enormous value of a mother's presence because I live everyday with its absence.” — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail… — David Carr Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time,… — David Carr Copy Share Image
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“To the extent I am good at anything other than falling down, it is getting back up, at overcoming low expectations—many of them my… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“But I've seen enough to know that we all carry a measure of guilt and innocence among us.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“law that stated you didn't advertise any event you hadn't attended, any place you'd never been, or any band you didn't really listen to.” — Mhairi McFarlane Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“What if," replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so as to… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark. "A virgin," sputtered another. "I didn't know they still made them." "He just did.” — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“John, let me make one thing clear,” Jim said, cutting me off in his most stern, evangelical voice. “Every man is blessed with his… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Life is like yoga; the only way you can enjoy it is by relaxing into any position you happen to find yourself in.” — Jon Wakeham Copy Share Image
