Quotes About Ingenious

The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors, of shifting the burden of one's support on the shoulders of others.

120 journées is a diabolically ingenious machine which simultaneously inverts the reality of Sade's situation and subverts the morality that justified it.

Don't be too obvious about it.

Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious—being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so—still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.

All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like this. I don't know if I can explain myself, but I used to use my brains as far as they went, and after they came to a blank wall I guessed, and I usually found my guesses pretty right.

To give style to one's character—that is a grand and rare art! He who surveys all that his nature presents in its strength and in its weakness, and then fashions it into an ingenious plan, until everything appears artistic and rational, and even the weaknesses enchant the eye..exercises that admirable art.

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

The course of a person's life, like the course of a river, may likewise be changed by means of ingenious and timely precautions.

very clever

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.

Los trucos más brillantes han sido siempre los más sencillos. Firmin Richard.

eyes of heavenly blue, deep enough to hold the most exquisite meanings an ingenious beholder could put into them, and deep enough to hide the meanings of the owner if these should happen to be less exquisite.

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.

I never make stupid mistakes - only very, very clever ones.

Its women are lovely and stubborn, its men angry and ingenious. Is there a land anywhere like southern Illinois?

Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.

Of the first few hauntings I investigated with Lockwood & Co. I intend to say little, in part to protect the identity of the victims, in part because of the gruesome nature of the incidents, but mainly because, in a variety of ingenious ways, we succeeded in messing them all up.

Before we start, you have to understand one very key thing about Amy: She is fucking brilliant. Her brain is so busy, it never works on just one level. She's like this endless archaeological dig: You think you've reached the final layer, and then you bring down your pick one more time, and you break through to a whole new mine shaft beneath. With a maze of tunnels and bottomless pits.

two children, Erik and Alexandra. "ABSORBING AND INGENIOUS." —Kirkus Reviews "[A] riveting, near-future thriller . . .

Just as Snow was concocting his theory of cholera as a waterborne agent that had to be ingested to do harm, Chadwick was building an elaborate scheme that would deliver the cholera directly to the mouths of Londoners. (A modern bio-terrorist couldn't have come up with a more ingenious and far-reaching scheme).

And then he experienced an inexplicable confusion of thoughts, like a rosary of ideas comprised of diverse and ingenious beads that had unraveled and was now rattling around in his brain with no thread linking them, no coherence.