Inventive Quotes

85 Inventive quotes by 78 unique authors

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,… — Luc de Clapiers
Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop. — Edward Hoagland
At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money. — Greg Laswell
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. — Sara Paretsky
It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. — Daniel Yergin
Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you… — Monica Ali
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to… — Charles Petzold
I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone… — Nick Rhodes
Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line… — John M. Tyler
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! — Thomas A. Edison
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,… — Matthew Arnold
I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff… — Tony Hsieh
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about… — Baz Luhrmann
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. — Steve Martin
Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds… — Jason Reitman
I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can… — Steven Spielberg
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations. — James Taylor
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. — George Sand
I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry. — Christopher Moore
If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you.… — Stuart Hill
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process… — Jaron Lanier
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of… — Darren Shan
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try… — Charles Bukowski
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes… — Robert Henri

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