Ingeniously Quotes

#1. It is ingeniously named, for it looks just as a cross would look if it looked like something else.

Mark Twain

#2. Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.

Agatha Christie

#3. Reverend Rumsey's voice droned on. "... And Mrs. Livonia Butt's, for her generous donation of awards-winning butter, so ingeniously sculpted into frolicking hams... I'm sorry, that's frolicking lambs...

Julie Berry

#4. Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.

Joe Queenan

#5. The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.

Cornel West

#6. Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#7. Be as affronted as you please, just don't volunteer anything. If you see what appears to be an opening in debate, remember that it was ingeniously laid down in front of you by Bolingbroke as coquettes drop handkerchiefs at the feet of men they would ensnare.

Neal Stephenson

#8. Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.

John Tooby

#9. I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?

Francis Scott Key

#10. Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.

Ted Chiang

#11. Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life?
What do the laws of physics care about life and consciousness that they should
conspire to make a hospitable universe? It's almost as if a Grand Designer had it
all figured out.

Paul Davies

#13. An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

D. J. Enright

#14. Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far ... it's as though they were all ingeniously programmed from the start of bringing me here.

Haruki Murakami

#16. When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

Dick Cavett

#17. Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Paul Valery

#18. OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe ... The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

Michael Connelly

#20. Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

Robert B. Parker

#21. Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'

Lindsay Duncan

#23. I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

Dino De Laurentiis

#24. I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

Jens Lekman

#25. There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

A.E. Housman

#26. The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

Stephen Covey