It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia 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
Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working. — Derek Sivers 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
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
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
“But you can't invent things like time,' Violet said. 'You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in… — Grace Paley 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
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
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
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
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to… — Karl Popper 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
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
Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You… — Jill Lepore 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
