Quotes About Ingenuity

A floating catfish cake doesn't sink!

Necessity remains the mother of invention.

There's a little of Dirk Pitt in all of us.

I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.

The idea was like a hunk of wood, Caesar thought, requiring human craft and ingenuity to reveal the new shape within.

We go solo, my kinfolk and I, taking each day as an IKEA bookcase we build alone, sans instructions. The leftover pieces? We gobble them down, and sometimes it's the only thing we eat all day.

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

My interest does not lie in raising parrots that just rehash "their master's voice," but rather in passing the torch to "independent and inventive, innovative and creative spirits.

There is only one school: that of talent.

Geniusz to brak przystosowania.

Il était malin, celui qui a inventé ce truc-là

It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Around the world-even in places where there is almost nothing, the rich, the beautiful, the talented, or the very clever can always get something; in fact, the best of whatever there is.

A clever trick does not a concept make.

You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction out of it. It's all you have. And somehow, wherever you are, it always seems to be enough.

Tenemos algo que los robots no tienen, al menos por el momento. Imaginación.

But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention.

Look we didn't break in, we conned our way in.' - Ruby 'Oh that makes it so much better.' - Hitch

When he was done, he wiped himself with a length of pitch-covered rope, and then

legitimately or not, he could sell it for enough to buy a small house; he could live off the proceeds

Los dos tenían esa sabiduría libresca que oculta una sorprendente ingenuidad.

Lucien was exultant over his design, brimming with pride as if he'd just won the Prix de Rome. Delighted with his own ingenuity, he experienced the same sense of exhilaration that had swept over him at the rue Galilée.