Invention Quotes - Page 8

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

Without question the AK-47 was a remarkable invention, and not just because it works so well, or because it changed how wars are fought, or because it proved to be one of the most important products of the 20th century.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

We can invent only with memory.

Necessity, mother of invention.

The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked up and asked, “What, for the invention of the fork or the fifteenth century?

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

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

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

When you have no money, you need invention.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.