Quotes of: Invention Keyword

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

American

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

The Invention of Morel

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Mikhail Gorbachev

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Dan Quayle

...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.

The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

A fat belly did not invent gun powder.

Greek

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive op...

Walter Russell Mead

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Octavio Paz

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.

The Invention of Love

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

The Invention of Solitude

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

R. Buckminster Fuller

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Latin

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Matthew McConaughey

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

Eddie Izzard

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Michael Graves

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Invention is not always good. Sometimes our inventions are too powerful for us to control.

The Legacy

People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.

Kevin Spacey

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Lukas Foss

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Al Gore

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Max Ernst