Invent Quotes

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

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 cloddish.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?