Top 1200 New Inventions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Life is composed of different inventions.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

How'd you communicate?" "Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out a way in and he got stressed and apparently that" -- she waved at him--- "is what happens when a werewolf gets stressed. By then, the garage door was open, some staff guy bringing in a car. He took one look at Derek and decided it was time for a new job

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.

... inventions and purely human institutions.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.