Quotes About Ingenious

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

He's the only man I know of who can hide his own easter eggs.

By whatever means are available.

Se decía: un trasero bien formado en el espacio no es más que un trasero bien formado, pero si le pones un trasero bien formado a una mujer tan ingeniosa como ella y le aplicas un poco de turbación lo que obtienes son… bueno, problemas.)

The flame consists of a splendid clarity, of an unusual vigor, and od an ingenious ardor, but possesses the splendid clarity that it may illuminate and the ingenious ardor that it may burn.

A most extraordinary device for catching dragon-flies is used by the children of the province of Kii. They get a long hair, - a woman's hair, - and attach a very small pebble to each end of it, so as to form a miniature "bolas"; and this they sling high into the air. A dragon-fly pounces upon the passing object; but the moment that he seizes it, the hair twists round his body, and the weight of the pebbles brings him to the ground.

Cadmus the Phoenician founds Thebes in Boeotia and introduces vulgar letters into Greece. Year of the world 2448.] 72 Since he introduced the Phoenician alphabet there, Boeotia should have been from its literate beginnings the most ingenious of all the nations of Greece; but it produced men of such doltish minds that "Boeotian" became a proverbial term for a man of slow wit.

CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for securing individual profit without individual responsibility.

A reveal should be unexpected and clever.

induction motor, radio control, wireless communications, spark plugs. It was said that his ideas and inventions came to him fully formed in a flash of inspiration.

A toothpick, inserted into a standard keyhole and snapped off flush, is a marvelous thing.

I grant that Freud was one of the most ingenious men who ever lived, but I have no more use for his system than I have for Paley's watch — a metaphor for the universe, wound up in the beginning, then ticking away for billions of years.

You're really smart.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

Supposedly if you could think of nothing good to say about a dullard you would say that he was a good Christian. Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

In the Catskills, it is claimed that an ingenious gentleman crossbred a Guernsey with a Holstein—to get a Goldstein.

What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?" "Best compliment I've had in a while.

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

They may camouflage their true feelings in ingenious ways: To show that they are not vain, they may purposely pay less attention to dress or be overly modest. But

liberally equipped with one-way pockets

I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which 'The Recognitions' ' debt to 'Ulysses' was established in such minute detail I was doubtful of my own firm recollection of never having read 'Ulysses.