Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Thomas Edward Brown

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Doug Coupland

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

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.
George Soros

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Bill Watterson

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.
Tomas Luis de Victoria

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.
Auguste Lumiere

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger von Oech

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson

Necessity, the mother of invention.
George Farquhar

Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper

None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.
Alex Chiu

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare