(374 quotes found)
“These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking”
Will Rogers
“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas”
“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.”
Bil Keane
“I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her child invention that's the real dangerous one.”
Darien Fawkes
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison... Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.”
Dave Barry
“I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work”
Thomas Alva Edison
