Birney/invention

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or invention:

    owls in the beardusky woods
    —Earle Birney (b. 1904)

    Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, & ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)