Invention Quotes

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.