Invention Quotes

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

Hillary Clinton

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But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

Erno Rubik

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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Billy Connolly

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I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

Ray Kurzweil

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There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Helen Frankenthaler

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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Varley O'Connor

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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Orson Welles

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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?

J. C. Ryle

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With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

Melissa Rosenberg

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Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

Tomas Luis de Victoria

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Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

Martin Rees

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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Douglas Coupland

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

William Shakespeare

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I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Thomas Heatherwick

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The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

Mark Kurlansky

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Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.

Jamie Lawson

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The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Henry Charles Carey

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I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

Ethan Canin

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Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Bill Watterson

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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Paul Rand

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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Isaac D'Israeli

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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Tanith Lee

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

Octavio Paz

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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

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