Top Inventions Quotes
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
Elias Hicks
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Robert Shea
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney 
64% of people like this quote
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman
61% of people like this quote
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
Elias Hicks
61% of people like this quote
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
57% of people like this quote
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Robert Shea
57% of people like this quote
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
Emil Nolde
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
John Moody
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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
James Dyson
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