Quotes About Ingenuity

Don't think this means I'm giving up. There's more than one way to decapitate a hellhound, and as it so happens, I know them all.

I've found duct tape more effective than advice, myself.

There are different kinds of cleverness, Sara.

S'il en avait découvert le moyen, il aurait fait passer la rue au travers de sa maison.

En lugar de reconocer la sofisticación intelectual de Emily, Charlotte la presentaba como una sencilla chica de campo, nada «culta», que había acabado escribiendo un libro desconcertante, más por ingenua que por versada.

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

When life gives you a lemon, thought Teddy, slipping his fingers neatly into the weapon's finger holes, you knock the lemon senseless.

Foaly almost grinned. Whatever I need to do.

He had also written a computer

Jon Spiro might have stuff that the military didn't have, but Artemis Fowl had stuff that humans had never seen.

It's like weaving: the weaver does not make the wool, he makes the best use of whatever wool he's given.

This is going to be the most . . . what is that name—Goldberg? Yes, Rube Goldberg–inspired operation I have ever imagined. Are you sure that we do not need to trigger it all with a hamster on a wheel? I dunno, Jackie said. Do you have a hamster on board? Let me check the medical supplies . . .

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Never wait for opportunity to knock at your door. If you can't find any, then create one yourself.

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

if you are smart enough, you can look at anything and think of twenty possible ways that is might be useful at some point in the future, so you just keep it.

When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.