Quotes of: Invention Keyword

The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

The Invention of Morel

...people don't think in churches. [ ]

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

Si inventer la substance, c'est indirectement inventer l'accident, plus l'invention est puissant, performante, et plus l'accident est dramatique.

Paul Virilio

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Sid Caesar

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

Helen Garner

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention ...

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot,...

Life with Picasso

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Yiddish

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

The Invention of Morel

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Bertrand Russell

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Alison Gopnik

Prototypes of inventions that use novel combinations of resonance, magnetism, states of matter, certain geometries or inward swirling motion to unlock the secrets of universal energy have already been built. They provide proof of new or rediscovered ...

Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World

The Italian invents it; the Frenchman makes it; the Germans sell it; the Pole buys it and the Tartar plunders it.

Polish

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.

The Invention of Morel

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

The Invention of the Jewish People

Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

The Invention of Wings

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

The Invention of Wings

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

The Library at Night

All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for 'he's standing right behind you'?

Fractured Legacy