Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive.… — Temple Grandin
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields… — Isak Dinesen
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. — Bill Watterson
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:… — Isabel Allende
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three… — Stephen King
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the… — David Foster Wallace
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want… — Chuck Palahniuk
The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I… — David Grossman
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a… — Marilyn Monroe
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges
My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and… — Nick Hornby
What one man can invent, another can discover. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and… — Alan Watts
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. — Germaine Greer
If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far. — Haruki Murakami
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of… — Barbara Kingsolver
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it — Thomas A. Edison
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that… — N.D. Wilson
All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons,… — Dorothy L. Sayers
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed… — Upton Sinclair
Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies… — Bertrand Russell
How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew… — Graham Greene
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood;… — Paulo Coelho

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