I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
“This is the problem with inventing. Virtually everything has been done already. These days most things are just the same things but… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing… — Seth Godin 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
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
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions.… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
“INVENTING A WRITING system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one. The first scribes had to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
