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When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.
— Alan Dean Foster
To invent is to discern, to choose.
— Henri Poincare
I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
— Michael Caine
If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?
— Shannen Doherty
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
— Howard Barker
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
— Robert Mankoff
I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.
— Ian Dury
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
— Jacqueline Leo
I like to experiment a lot and invent things.
— Kathy Ireland
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
— Walter Dean Myers
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life.
— Stephen Hawking
I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
— Alice Oswald
Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
— Karl Lagerfeld
Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.
— Manoj Vaz
my life's motto: If you're not willing to invent cool-sounding bullshit about yourself, don't expect others to.
— Tim Dorsey
She would say, Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun ... then my work here is done.
— Lauren Willig
We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
— Jerry Garcia
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
— Alexander Pushkin
I want to invent a drug to help people get off drugs.
— Jarod Kintz
Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
— Katharine Whitehorn
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.
— Charles Bukowski
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
— Todd Rundgren
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.
— Robin Marantz Henig
If you are always looking for the negative in yourself, then you will find ways to invent it.
— Kenneth Horowitz
Lies have always been easier to invent than reality.
— Marty Rubin
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
— Warren G. Bennis
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
— Jeanette Winterson
My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.
— Jim Harrison
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
— Robert Anton Wilson
What one man can invent, another can discover.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
— Elbert Hubbard
I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?
— Ryan Lilly
I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play
— Juan Carlos Onetti
We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.
— Pattie Maes
Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.
— Sarah Addison Allen
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.""Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy
Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.
— Adam Young
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?
— Julio Cortazar
138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse - and forget it immediately.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body.
— Anna C. Salter
If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.
— Haruki Murakami
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
— Edward De Bono
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.
— John F. Kennedy
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'
— Charles Lyell
I believe it is the sole business of government to invent elaborate impediments to swift action,
— Lyndsay Faye
I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.
— Anthony Pettis
Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!
— Philippe Kahn
We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
— Jeff Bezos
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
— Orson Scott Card
The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.
— Phillip C. Schlechty
And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.
— Richard Wright
The propensity of man, is to invent history, that he may promote his own destiny...Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba — Joaquin R. Larriba
My training and my inclination is to invent.
— Darin Strauss
I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?
— Lisa Samson
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
— Siri Hustvedt
Dreamers push boundaries, they invent and they keep awake at all times.
— Euginia Herlihy
Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil.
— Mark T. Barnes
I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
— Thomas A. Edison
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
— Honore De Balzac
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
— G.K. Chesterton
When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.
— Marty Rubin
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
— Jack Vance
Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.
— David Rockwell
It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.
— John Wyndham
When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.
— Dana Gould
We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
— Stephen Richards
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
— Charles J. Shields
If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
— Olga Korbut
There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.
— Shelagh Delaney
