Quotes About Invention

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He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.

Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.'

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

Revelation births creativity.

Pentatonické ladÄ›ní harfy je hudebním protÄ›jÅ¡kem vynálezu kola.

I have no proof of this, but I think the decibel was invented in a bar, late one night, by a committee of drunken electrical engineers who wanted to take revenge on the world for their total lack of dancing partners.

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Laugh if you will... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Plans for running two elevator cars—a local and an express—in the same shaft were being developed by Otis engineers in 1929.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

How strange a thing this art of writing did seem at it's first invention, we may guess by late discovered Americans, who were amazed to see men Converse with books, and could scarce make themselves to believe that a paper could speak..

It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.

You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way." -The Wheel, John Wtndham

I cannot think why you love me,' he said, as all lovers say; but with more anxiety in his voice than is usual. 'Oh, I am nothing without you,' she said. 'I should not know what to be. I feel as if you had invented me. I watch you inventing me, week after week

The ballpoint pen was invented by László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply!

With Byron's reaction to her deepest dream, she should have realized her mistake, that the romance she had infused him with was all of her own invention.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To invent. To leap. To fly. To fall. SUSAN SONTAG