Inventing Quotes
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Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
Salvador Dali -
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 character.
Joanne Rowling
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I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.
Maggie Stiefvater -
What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.
Philip Glass -
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Ernest Hemingway -
I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.
Judy Blume -
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.
Aristotle -
You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
Harry Mathews
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I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself...
Miranda July -
Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.
Genrich Altshuller -
Opportunity – I really love the idea of creating, exploring and inventing and staying interested in all opportunities that come my way.
Cara Santana -
One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they want to succeed too fast, this is how they go about inventing new aesthetics, pointillism, pipisme! All this is just to make noise.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau -
But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?
Lewis Carroll -
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
Nancy Mitford -
In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.'
Robert Zubrin -
You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.
Caterina Fake -
I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I'd like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream formulas.
Ryan Trecartin -
One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
Walter M. Fitch -
You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'
David Keirsey
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The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!
Seth Godin -
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
Richard Feynman -
Man keeps inventing things all the time.
Mikhail Kalashnikov -
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
Marcel Proust