Inventing Quotes

196 Inventing quotes by 181 unique authors

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations. — Agatha Christie
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and… — Carol P. Christ
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself. — Francis Ford Coppola
Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go… — Alexander Graham Bell
I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a… — Kurt Cobain
The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions! — Seth Godin
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite… — C.S. Lewis
When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our… — Bill Buxton
There is no re-inventing the wheel. — Sean Penn
I was always inventing characters and making up stories. — Suzanne Vega
You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the… — David Keirsey
If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could… — Tim Pratt
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols. — John Calvin
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the… — Orson Scott Card
My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses… — Alastair Campbell
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is… — Peter Zumthor
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels
Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is… — Albert Memmi
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as… — Phineas Quimby
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things… — David Boaz
Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do. — Anthony Kiedis
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to… — Phyllis McGinley
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand… — Israel Shenker
I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some… — Maggie Stiefvater

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