#invention

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#clothes #impossible #invention #keep #like

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#i #learned #quality #reinvention

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#dated #fixed #inventions #many #offices

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. ↗

— Robert Shea

#functions #human #human inventions #interdependent #inventions

I want to create a cologne that smells like a whisper. It’ll be for all the secret admirers out there.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cologne #fragrance #invent #invention #secret-admirer

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. ↗

— Archimedes

#determination #discovery #invention #opportunity #change

Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is exactly why you have to ask "Why?" and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH... ↗

— Joe Kelly

#invention #truth #courage

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. ↗

— Rodney Stark

#inventions #technology #faith

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#destiny #invention #resigned

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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