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,

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Andy Kindler

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

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.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Craig McHugh

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

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

Phil Garner

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,

Bruce Lee

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Tetsu Emori

Most of the traders are looking at the Iranian issue over the bearish inventory report.

David Carson

He was sort of an inventor of a tough-guy look, whether he knew it or not.

Robert Morton

we can keep an inventory of what we got, what we need.

Jim Cain

Our inventory is actually less than one per dealer.

Cameron Russell

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Barry McCaffrey

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Richard Grasso

would have been a valuable contributor to our board.

Alice Hamilton

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings