Ground Breaking Invention

Necessity is the mother of invention. - Unknown

He who slings mud generally loses ground. - Adlai Stevenson

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. - Stephen Covey

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. - James Beard

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

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

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

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

I moved to Florida because you don't have to shovel water. - James Randi

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

What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man? - Homer Simpson

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

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. - Faith Hill

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. - Melinda Gates

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground. - Kim Young-ha

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

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

There's flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground... oh, the humanity... - Herbert Robertson

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

Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me. - Mark Twain

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. - Michelle Obama

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

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. - Orville Wright

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

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

Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants off. - Unknown

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

A good friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body - let me know if I ever need to bring a shovel. - Unknown

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

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

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

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. - J K Rowling