Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
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I began to realise that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms, and they took their inventing very seriously.
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
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To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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Ephesians 4:14:
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
(NIV)
So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.
(AMP)
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
(KJV)
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
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It's not that I object to people re-inventing the wheel; what gets to me is watching them re-invent the flat tire.
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Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
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The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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Fear is a great inventor.
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Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.
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If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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