The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.
The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new systems of organization in the economy and in politics, but you don't see any real improvement in the well-being of the average person.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.
I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.
I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
Doubt is the father of invention.
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.