Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any… — Bill Bryson
Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. — Siri Hustvedt
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal… — Siri Hustvedt
It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to… — William Saroyan
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk. — Albert Einstein
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am… — Samuel Beckett
Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons. — Ryan North
I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we… — Maya Angelou
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. — Gene Wolfe
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. — David Mamet
We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically.… — S.J. Watson
What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you… — Richard Rohr
War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the… — Laini Taylor
All really interesting girls invent themselves. — Anna Godbersen
We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby… — Sophie Kinsella
He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves,… — Lauren Oliver
How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. — Margaret Atwood
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves;… — Julian Barnes
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At… — David Grossman
Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them. — Julian Fellowes
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what… — Joseph Campbell

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