I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far,… — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an… — Theodore Zeldin 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 Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field… — Thomas Kuhn 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
The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Loewe inspires me. The way Jonathan Anderson's brain works... He's inventing, not just for the sake of new, new, new. It comes… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac Copy Share Image
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing… — Warren Bennis Copy Share Image
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and… — Bill Buxton Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Now, I got to do the inventing. I got to do the creating. A new life, my new life, would rise from… — Jim Kraus Copy Share Image
I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just… — James Jorash 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
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it. — Helen Garner 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
I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
