Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

Hip-hop didn't invent anything… hip-hop re-invented everything. — Unknown Author
Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to. — Marilyn Monroe
I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes. — Robert Crumb
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h***… — J.K. Simmons
You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there. — Adrian Grenier
Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they draw incorrect conclusions… — Quentin L. Cook
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans… — Unknown Author
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. — Frank Kermode
Remember. Or, failing that, invent. — Monique Wittig
It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man… — Unknown Author
I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better… — Wendell Berry
I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that… — Brassai
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in… — Martin Luther
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. — Murray Kempton
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies… — Anthony Minghella
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep… — Polybius
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent,… — Eugene Ionesco
I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old… — Bobby Fischer
You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it. — Frederik Pohl
I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already… — Saul Bellow
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was… — Zora Neale Hurston
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in… — Dav Pilkey

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