Top 1200 Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

While in 'Komban' I played the mother of Karthi, a relatively quiet character, the mother role in 'Kanchana 2' was a stark contrast.

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

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

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Every time I get a role of a mother, I try to find a different area, person or milieu where I can put the mother That's always exciting.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

I went to my mother right before I was set to go protest my first soldier's funeral and asked my mother: 'I need to understand why we're doing this.'

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women with a bulge just above the groin, slightly double-chinned. Perpetually forty. Someone's mother, you think. There is a child somewhere who has made this woman into a mother, and for the sake of the child she has altered her appearance to better play the part.

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

I have no memory at all of my mother shouting at me or at my sister. But I do have horrible memories of my father and the way he behaved. He was so tough on our mother.

Personally, I wear a lot of my mother-in-law's chiffons and my mother's silk. But when I buy saris for myself, then they have to be understated.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

My Aunt Lori is my mother's sister and has always been a mother figure to me. She is smart, driven, successful, and kind.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

That's what I do. I just let Mother Earth use me, in many, many instances, especially when I am working with pollution. She is a very real Spirit - she is your mother, and if you open to Her, she can come in and use you in a way that is very powerful. That is what Mother Teresa has done, by being selfless.

My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

The 'Mother of God' stuff comes from my dad who used to use that all the time. He would say, 'Mother of God' all the time. He used to just say 'Mother' and we know what he meant.

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.