Invert, always invert.

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

— Henry Edward Manning

I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of…

— Jeff Bezos

Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.

— William Wegman

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables…

— Gaston Bachelard

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it…

— William James

“Mme Verdurin asked him: "Did you have some of my orangeade?" Whereupon M. de Charlus, with a gracious smile, in a crystalline tone which…

— Marcel Proust

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

— Stephen Covey

One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a…

— Michel Foucault

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true…

— Oliver Harris

How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an…

— Charles Dickens

In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become…

— Michel Foucault

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull…

— Alice Sebold

Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the…

— Fred Reinfeld

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd…

— Alexander Pope

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom…

— Herman Melville