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)