Famous Quotes & Sayings

William McDonough

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

Richard Courant

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Walter Scott

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Jim Crace

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Kevin Bleyer

Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.

Mark Haddon

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

As long as we have '05 inventory on the ground, we're going to keep it going," ()

Dealers tell us they can't keep them on the lot, with vehicles staying in inventory less than a week on average.

Larry Wachtel

Tech is suffering from one big inventory overhang. It's going to take a long time to work through that.

Julia Glass

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

We're about to invent a new stage of life.

We didn't invent these figures. It took us a long time to get them.

We have 300 patents now. We had to invent a lot of stuff to make it work.

Anthony Kiedis

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

Robert Kiyosaki

The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Mallory Ortberg

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Jeff Bezos

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

Whoever invented work must not have had anything to do

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Germaine Greer

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

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

William Kircher

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

Walter Murch

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

Otto Lilienthal

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.