Inventing Quotes

196 Inventing quotes by 181 unique authors

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career. — Brion Gysin
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. — Barbara Kingsolver
But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one? — Lewis Carroll
You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady… — Mathias Malzieu
i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.. — Miranda July
Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any. — Patricia Briggs
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. — Virginia Woolf
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes… — Tim O'Brien
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any. — Carl Sagan
We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is,… — Carl Sagan
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories. — Roald Dahl
Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too… — Claudia Gray
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it… — Jean Piaget
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process -… — Richard Dawkins
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the… — Christopher Hitchens
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best… — Roberto Benigni
One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on… — Warren G. Bennis
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people. — Gretchen Rubin
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. — Grace Paley
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue. — Malaika Arora Khan
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. — Julia Glass

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