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Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

Necessity is the mother of invention. - Unknown

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Getting caught is the mother of invention. - Robert Byrne

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. - Plato

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. - Ann Douglas

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. - Arnold H Glasow

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Albert Camus

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

Ceremony: The invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent. - Arthur Conan Doyle

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. - Vincent T. Foss

Whatever their faults, the Communists did not invent canned laughter. - Unknown

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

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

Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent. - William Blake

Key Ring: A handy little gadget that allows you to lose all your keys at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Guarantee: A legal vehicle which expires on the same day as your mechanical one - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. - R Buckminster Fuller

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

Nobody was ever meant,
To remember or invent,
What he did with every cent. - Robert Frost

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. - Demetri Martin

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. - Angela Thirkell

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics. - Robert Kiyosaki

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. - Niels Bohr

My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." - Steven Wright

My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour. - Marie Antoinette

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. - Bertrand Russell

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

If we don't redouble our efforts to increase incentives for invention, this country's going to lose its edge. - Dean Kamen

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Telephone: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. - Ambrose Bierce

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

He who tells a lie, is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. - Alexander Pope

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken