Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Sydney Smith

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

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Andy Kindler

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

Rob Bell

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

Craig Ferguson

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Walter Benjamin

I realized that I was connected to Africa.

Bryan Cranston

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play [ "All the Way" ]. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

George Hamilton

I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

Lola Kirke

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

Jodi Picoult

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Lupita Nyong'o

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

Richelle Mead

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

Wendelin Van Draanen

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.