#invention

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#first #had #i #invention #made

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#absolutely #action #action movies #cinema #even

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#challenge #chameleon #change #how #i

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#gay #human #invention #reality #western

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#cannot #changed #creature #hope #idea

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#feeling #i #reinvention #simply

Invention is the mother of necessity. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#mother #necessity