Inventing Quotes

196 Inventing quotes by 181 unique authors

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. — Benoit Mandelbrot
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards… — George Orwell
I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great… — Chuck Palahniuk
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're… — Melissa Rosenberg
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and… — Paul Theroux
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking… — Raoul Vaneigem
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself… — Evelyn Waugh
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. — Jeremiah Wright
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal… — Alber Elbaz
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. — Margaret Heffernan
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray
What if I never stop inventing? — Jonathan Safran Foer
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one… — Richard Bach
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,… — Samuel Beckett
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of… — George Orwell
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out… — Daniel Handler
I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… — Carlos Fuentes
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of… — Jamaica Kincaid
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. — Douglas Hofstadter
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird.… — Jason Mraz

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