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I've turned down too many gods toStart inventing my own now
Or believe in yours either. — Joanna McClure
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
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
— Frederick Buechner
I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.
— Romesh Gunesekera
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
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
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun
— Mary Lou Cook
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
