I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
“Now, I got to do the inventing. I got to do the creating. A new life, my new life, would rise from… — Jim Kraus Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say… — Sara Harrison Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and… — Bill Buxton Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I had always dared to dream large, but even this black kid~ez_rsquo~s imagination could not have come close to inventing the storybook… — Kevin Clash Copy Share Image
Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far,… — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that?… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story… — John Irving Copy Share Image
'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride.… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
People should stop inventing new things. They might make our lives easier in the short term, but they end up creating stress. — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
