Invention Quotes

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

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

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.