Quotes tagged ‘invention’

“I never built an Amnesianator. I think I'd remember building something like that.”

— Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh, Dan Povenmire, Jon Colton Barry, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Dan Povenmire, imdb.com

“The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! I invented the piano key necktie, I invented it! What have you done, Derek? You've done nothing! NOTHIIIING!”

— Drake Sather, Ben Stiller, Jacobim Mugatu, Will Ferrell, imdb.com

“Danny “Danno” Williams: You know what the greatest invention of all time is? Chin Ho Kelly: What? Danny “Danno” Williams: The ignore button. I have a theory that whoever invented the modern cellular phone also had an ex-wife.”

— Carol Barbee, Danny Williams, Scott Caan, imdb.com

“I didn't invent the turtleneck, Lana. But I was the first to see its potential as a tactical garment. The Tactical Turtleneck, Lana. The... Tactleneck!”

— Adam Reed, Sterling Archer (voice), H. Jon Benjamin, imdb.com

“Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?”

— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com

“If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.”

— Ross Perot, ranker.com

“The invention of the fan.... blew people away.”

— glase_firedrake, reddit.com

“Have you ever heard of the invention of the shovel? It was ground breaking.”

— Thomas_redit, reddit.com

“When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. … Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social b…”

— Tim Berners-Lee, en.wikiquote.org

“Wouldn't it have been amazing if John Lennon had invented that device that you put in your front door to secretly see who's on the other side... I mean, imagine all the peepholes.”

— madazzahatter, reddit.com

“Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilized nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops.”

— Alfred Nobel, alfrednobel.org

“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.”

— Alfred Nobel, en.wikiquote.org

“The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.”

— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org

“There are some experiences in life they haven’t invented the right words for.”

— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com

“Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.”

— E. B. White, en.wikiquote.org

“What is Marie Curie’s favorite food? Fission chips.”

— raydeep, reddit.com

“Actually, I have a challenge for you: what's the craziest thing you can think of? An idea that can change the world?”

— Jay Shetty, youtube.com

“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I do it myself. So most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman Grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill, I go back to sl…”

— Mindy Kaling, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, amazon.com

“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”

— Paulo Coelho, google.com