Accidental Invention Quotes

#1. We use the metaphor of waves that rise and fall in societies, perhaps forgetting that the actual waves of the ocean are purely opportunistic, small irregularities in water that, snagging a fortunate gust, rise and break like monsters, for no greater cause than their own accidental invention.

Adam Gopnik

#2. Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible. The

Douglas Axe

#3. Vonnegut said, When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Anne Lamott

#4. Wake up, sleeping beauty," he whispered in her ear. "The sun is just about to crest the mountains."
"Tell it to wait," she mumbled.

Donna Grant

#5. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I know what I believe in. I know my morals and I know what I have to offer.

Lucy Hale

#6. I'm thinking about starting a solo project. But it will feature Tyler on all the songs. We'll call it something like 'Two Music Boys.'

Josh Dun

#7. I don't think I would have stayed for the second season if I hadn't been happy.

Sarah Sutton

#8. Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!

Russell Pearce

#9. I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Tracey Ullman

#10. I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

Simon Schama

#11. You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Bryan Batt

#12. I love conversations!" "Why?" "Because we're all crazy!" said Serge. "And that's how society makes progress: imaginations getting together and glancing off each other in accidental tangents of invention.

Tim Dorsey

#13. Have faith in fate. You don't have a choice.

Tapan Ghosh

#14. For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rachel Carson

#15. Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

Oscar Wilde

#16. All those years I'd kept an outline of my father in my head, like a chalk line enclosing a father-shaped space. When I was little, I'd coloured it in often enough. But those colours had been too bright and the outline had been too large ...

Margaret Atwood

#17. I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

A-Trak

#18. All bleeding eventually stops.

Richard Van Anderson