90 Movie Quotes about Inventions (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about inventions, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.

Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles (1974)

22 Necessity is the mother of invention.

Jim Carrey as Cable Guy in The Cable Guy (1996)

23 I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly.

Ed Harris as Gene Kranz in Apollo 13

24 We gotta find a way to make this fit into the hole for this using nothing but that.

Quote from Apollo 13

25 What I am about to tell you now is very top secret, it ranks with the discovery of electricity and the invention of the wheel.

Vincent Price as Burnbridge Waters in Champagne for Caesar

26 It's a new explosive that makes no noise. It's called silentmite.

Julie Newmar as Catwoman in Batman (1966)

27 Making it up? Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Marvin The Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

28 A magician looks into this crystal, and sees and hears halfway across the world. Aha, says man, if only it could be so. And centuries from now he conjures up miracles, but calls them radio and television.

Harry Morgan as Carolinus in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

29 No, no, no, bunny boy. I got no time for a lot of mushy-gushy thank-you-very-muches because I feel another invention coming on. Hoo hoo hoo hoo!

Jim Cummings as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

30 So, they invented this snarfblatt to make fine music.

Buddy Hackett as Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989)