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Quotes About Ingenious

It's delicious, ingenious, perfect, intelligent that you never felt like you fit in. It means that you were always alive, and therefore unique and irreplaceable, designed to resist any kind of labeling whatsoever, unable to be pinned down or reduced to a category.
~ Jeff Foster
The human mind is more like a hand than a Swiss Army knife. A human hand isn't designed to do any one thing in particular. But it is an exceptionally flexible and effective device for doing many things, including things we might never have imagined.
~ Alison Gopnik
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
~ Christopher Morley
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
~ Christopher Morley
He found himself, almost immediately, up against the old truth that a machine, however ingenious, is incapable of original thought. It can handle no problems except those that resolve themselves into mathematical terms—problems that contain one, and only one, correct answer.
~ Roald Dahl
The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, As it raced along the road. Who was it steered it into a pond? Ingenious Mr. Toad!
~ Kenneth Grahame
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The British people have always been a practical breed.
~ Damian Green
David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.
~ Eric Metaxas
Sometimes, however, it is better to play the most capricious, unpredictable move.
~ Robert Greene
Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal (Candler)
~ Diana Palmer
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I can fight a lot of different ways. I'm pretty crafty.
~ Cub Swanson
The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back
~ Aldous Huxley
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
~ Richard Wagner
Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever
~ Robin James
Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
~ Ambrose Bierce