Invention Quotes

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

We can invent only with memory.

Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

Probably death is the best invention of life.

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.