Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. — Francis Ford Coppola
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for… — Julio Cortazar
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on… — Willem Dafoe
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was… — Freeman Dyson
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it,… — James Dyson
One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are… — Roger Ebert
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world. — Umberto Eco
I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent… — Umberto Eco
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. — Thomas A. Edison
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. — Thomas A. Edison
I didn't just invent saying offensive things. — Eminem
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use… — Joshua Foer
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. — Nhat Hanh
I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket… — Salma Hayek
God forgives those who invent what they need. — Lillian Hellman
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and… — Daymond John
I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It… — Mikhail Kalashnikov
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those… — John F. Kennedy
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize… — D. H. Lawrence
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. — Walter Lippmann
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history,… — Audre Lorde
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels… — Hilary Mantel
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war. — Walter Dean Myers
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for… — Nathan Myhrvold
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. — V.S. Naipaul

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