Devise Quotes
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.
- Carl Sandburg
[Verdine White would soar aloft on wires. Johnson's drum kit was welded to a riser which rotated through 360 degrees with him still flailing away- a stunt the band devised after watching Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer spin his piano.] I had a lot of fun doing it... Never got sick. And I'd do it again.
- Ralph Johnson
[One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water's
surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.] They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way
some days. - Michael Noonan
surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.] They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way
some days. - Michael Noonan
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