It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get… — Stephanie Kwolek Copy Share Image
One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the… — Walter M. Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves - they're not pure pastiche. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed… — Douglas Pagels Copy Share Image
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV… — Paul Daniels Copy Share Image
What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at… — Denis Parsons Burkitt Copy Share Image
I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that… — Auguste Laurent Copy Share Image
I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the… — Ryan Trecartin Copy Share Image
While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
