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I've turned down too many gods to
Start inventing my own now
Or believe in yours either. — Joanna McClure

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which. — Jeff Bezos

Man keeps inventing things all the time. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors. — Donald Sadoway

Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself. — Francis Ford Coppola

Some people like drama so much that they have to start inventing things because real life isn't interesting enough for them. — Lisa Ballantyne

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language. — Mark Twain

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do. — Anthony Kiedis

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities. — Aristotle.

Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire. — Mike Cloud

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. — Julia Glass

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. — Jerry B. Jenkins

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. — Jules Verne

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it. — Frederick Buechner

Thank Satan's scientists for inventing the birth control pill. — Eve Langlais

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography. — Romesh Gunesekera

Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which. — Claudia Gray

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things. — Amy Klobuchar

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves. — Marty Rubin

I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana. — Christian Louboutin

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. — Ray Dolby

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. — Bo Bennett

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely? — Robert Motherwell

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality — Gilles Deleuze

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. — John McPhee

It's not about inventing, it's about saying it best. — Wendy Potocki

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. — Benoit Mandelbrot

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. — Al Gore

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

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun — Mary Lou Cook

I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed. — Paulo Coelho

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. — Margaret Heffernan

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more. — Terry Pratchett

I don't believe that anything's totally invented ... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it. — Helen Garner

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone. — Janis Ian

I was always inventing characters and making up stories. — Suzanne Vega

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life ... the new career arc. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders. — Philippe Kahn

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. — Charles Kettering

Charles was at this time very fond of inventing games for the amusement of his brothers and sisters; — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The human heart is a factory of idols ... Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols. — John Calvin

Humans believe in nothingness, in zeros. It is one of their distinguishing traits. They keep inventing nothing. Forerunners know otherwise. — Greg Bear

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. — Grace Paley

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it. — Karl Popper

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. — David Antin

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people. — Gretchen Rubin

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun. — Mitchel Resnick

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place ... is called genius. — Craig Bruce

Saying is inventing. — Samuel Beckett

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is? — Debasish Mridha

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules. — Chloe Thurlow

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently. — Shigeru Ban

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them. — Rupert Hart-Davis

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. — Douglas R. Hofstadter

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow. — Paul Sloane

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something. — Stephanie Kwolek

Inventing was easier than apologizing. It least it was easier to invent excuses. — Jake Lingwall

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. — Christiaan Barnard

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating. — Woody Norris

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg

Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs. — Richard Wright

Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena. — Neil Gaiman

The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own. — John Jackson Miller

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge. — Muriel Barbery

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. — Gary Hamel

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something. — Alan Alda

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

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. — Jeremiah Wright

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. — Virginia Woolf

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. — Ben Elton

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now. — Sam Farr

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. — Joseph Barbera

Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions. — Josh Duhamel

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. — Helmut Jahn

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love. — John Edgar Wideman

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to. — Joshua Cohen

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. — Evelyn Waugh

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are. — Ben Okri

If I made you from nothing, then maybe I am God, and because I want More, maybe I'm the Devil. — Craig Clevenger

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true. — Vilmos Zsigmond

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil. — Will Chabot

Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue. — Malaika Arora Khan

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions. — Genrich Altshuller

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. — Richard P. Feynman

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run. — Justin Cronin

What if I never stop inventing? — Jonathan Safran Foer

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia

...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing. — Hollis Gillespie

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film. — Warren Bennis

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong. — Jamaica Kincaid

I want to kiss her like we're inventing the idea. — A. Wilding Wells

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one? — Lewis Carroll