Invent Quotes
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When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
Albert Camus -
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
R. L. Stine -
There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy.
Eric Drooker -
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
W. P. Kinsella -
Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
R. C. Sproul -
To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.
Albert Einstein -
I do not see the world at all; I invent it.
Franz Kafka
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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.
Albert Einstein -
America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.
Robert Pozen -
Invent a new language anyone can understand.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.
Sarah Addison Allen -
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Thomas Hardy -
Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
Steve Jobs -
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
Thomas A. Edison -
It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too obscure for them to recognise.
Alex Scarrow -
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake -
In order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him.
Brewster Ghiselin
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I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
Sylvia Kristel -
Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The ancestors of the Blacks, who today live mainly in Black Africa, were the first to invent mathematics, astronomy, the calendar, sciences in general, arts, religion, agriculture, social organisation, medicine, writing, technique, architecture
Cheikh Anta Diop -
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost