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We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.


Dejan Stojanovic


#forgot #forgotten-past #inventions #literature #literature-quotes

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.


Virginia Woolf


#imagination #invention #life #truths #imagination

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.


Thomas A. Edison


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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.


Joseph Barbera


#dreaming #going #hoping #inventing #keep

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.


Drew Barrymore


#classic #dish #dishes #fancy #food

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?


Peter Berg


#being #challenge #could #different #drawn

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.


Jeff Bezos


#business #customers #determine #even #example

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.


Ambrose Bierce


#advantages #devil #disagreeable #distance #his

Doubt is the father of invention.


Ambrose Bierce


#father #invention

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.


Ambrose Bierce


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