Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that were more difficult or even impossible by barter alone.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

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.

"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.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

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

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

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean 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.

Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

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

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

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.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

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

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.