Invent Quotes

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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we… — Jean-Paul Sartre
We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we… — Hugo Chavez
Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you… — Jack White
The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all… — N. T. Wright
I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that… — Thornton Willis
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. — Oliver Evans
All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a… — Peter York
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have… — Louis L'Amour
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star:… — Clarence Day
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be… — Neil Postman
I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff. — Morgan Freeman
I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must… — Thomas Hood
We invent the past and remember the future. — Isak Dinesen
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The… — Wallace Stevens
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to… — Alexander Pope
I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I… — Vincent Van Gogh
To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover... — Martin Buber
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it... — Willem de Kooning
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals. — Ben Shahn
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. — Alan Lightman

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