Invention Quotes - Page 11

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than "The Meta­morphosis".

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

Creativity is an integral part of our personality.

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

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

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.