(374 quotes found)
“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing”
Joshua Reynolds
“But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant, either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.”
Galileo Galilei
“School shootings were invented by blacks, ... and stolen by the white man.”
Chris Rock
“A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with”
Lawrence Clark Powell
“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.”
Kenneth Clark
“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
Ignazio Silone
“Do not debate! is one of my inventions.”
Deng Xiaoping
“They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.”
Ted Williams
“The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly”
Daniel Webster
