Invention Quotes

Creativity is an integral part of our personality.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

When you have no money, you need invention.

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than "The Meta­morphosis".

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

Being able to check your balance on the phone is the best invention ever.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!

All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened.

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

Life is composed of different inventions.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.