Invent Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

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.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.