Quotes of Devise - somelinesforyou

“ I invent nothing, I rediscover. ”

- Auguste Rodin

“ To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste. ”

- W. B. Yeats

“ Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. ”

- Nicolas Boileau

“ To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. ”

- Gianni Versace

“ War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. ”

- Eliel Saarinen

“ If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it. ”

- Jennifer Aniston

“ If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist. ”

- Voltaire

“ To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison. ”

- Thomas Edison

“ I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself. ”

- Ursula Andress

“ It is good the have a hatch before the durre. ”

- John Heywood

“ My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians. ”

- Robert Moog

“ A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ If you would create something, you must be something. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing. ”

- Pete Conrad

“ A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. It is right it should be so; Man was made for Joy and Woe; And when this we rightly know, Thro' the world we safely go, Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ”

- H.F. Hedge

“ The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ”

- Francis Herbert Hedge

“ It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ". ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. ”

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“ The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. ”

- Marquis de Sade
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