Inventive Quotes
85 Inventive quotes by 78 unique authors
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I don't think anybody has been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always…
— Diana Vreeland
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It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!
— Arlene Hunt
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Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He…
— Unknown Author
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of…
— Frances Wright
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I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive…
— Anton Corbijn
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I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive…
— Harry Allen Overstreet
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In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or…
— M. G. Vassanji
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Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change…
— Subcomandante Marcos
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Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His…
— Peter Mayle
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Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.
— Steve Morse
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Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
— Nora Ephron
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The truth is that it’s not about the weight. It’s never been about the weight. When a pill is discovered that allows people to eat…
— Geneen Roth
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We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
— Eve Ensler
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
— Robert Henri
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Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh,…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
— Kevin Kline
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We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid…
— Carl Sagan
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One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.
— Scott Yanow
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The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or…
— Toni Morrison
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[L]ove is inventive to infinity.
— Vincent de Paul
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In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past…
— Jennifer Chiaverini
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Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.
— Walter Gropius
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