Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's…

I was always fascinated with the idea that an imaginary friend was the perfect friend that a child created, and I wanted to play…

— Dan Santat

But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll…

— Claire Messud

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up…

— Denis Parsons Burkitt

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever…

— Dan Barker

It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…

— Richard Dawkins

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology…

— Ann Douglas

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

— David Copperfield

“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole…

— John Steinbeck

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding…

— Jean Piaget

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

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 the same…

— Brittany Murphy

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira