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Letter "I" » invention
«Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.»
«Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.»
Author: David Frost
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
entertained, invention, living room, permits, television
«Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife»
Author: Jonathan Schattke
| About:
Creativity,
Knowledge,
Necessity
| Keywords:
creativity, Father, invention, midwife, midwives, necessity, The Mother
«My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
as far as possible, concrete, device, embodies, embody, embodying, improvement, improvements, invention, New Idea, operate, rush
«Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.»
«Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
indoor, Inside the, invention, plumb, plumbed, plumbing
«Mothers are the necessity of invention.»
«One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
admittedly, fabric, fiction, invention, liar, outrageous, sincere, truthful
«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.»
«O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.»
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