Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for… — Elizabeth Streb
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of… — U.G. Krishnamurti
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society. — Marie Brennan
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found… — Mark Twain
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its… — Joseph Addison
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities… — Erich Fromm
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office. — Steven Moffat
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. — Albert Camus
Where there is no hope, we must invent it. — Albert Camus
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army — Joseph Campbell
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.… — Ernest Hemingway
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did… — Jacques Barzun
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their… — John Cage
To invent is to discern, to choose. — Henri Poincare
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? — Eddie Izzard
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it. — Murray Kempton
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority. — Stanley Milgram
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So… — W. P. Kinsella
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and… — Unknown Author
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real. — R L Stine
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background,… — Walter Jon Williams

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