Able Quote by Virginia Woolf

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together…

— Mary McGrory

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

— Michael Pollan

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

— Anonymous

Being able to see and recombine existing assets and know-how in new ways allows us to take an 'ingenious approach to innovation' - one…

— Cathy Engelbert

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden…

— Robert Moog

“The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious.” Back”

— Aldous Huxley

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of…

— Bruce Lee

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…

— H. G. Wells

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book…

— Samuel Pepys

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

— Homer

“He created us through the long and complex process of Natural and Sexual Selection, which is none other than His ingenious device for instilling…

— Margaret Atwood