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A ... poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor. — Jorge Luis Borges

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor. — Josie Maran

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The inventor knows HOW to borrow. — Harold Bloom

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor. — Francois Jacob

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton. — David Antin

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. — Ray Kurzweil

Death is the inventor of God. — Jose Saramago

I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business. — Woody Norris

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The inventors of tools enhance civilization,
but the author of ideas enables them to invent. — Toba Beta

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration. — Charles M. Schwab

You're the inventor," Klaus answered, buttoning his coat. "But you can't invent things like time, — Lemony Snicket

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. — John F. Kennedy

The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains — Sebastian Thrun

I am an inventor of music. — Igor Stravinsky

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better. — Neil Jackson

Man is the inventor of stupidity. — Remy De Gourmont

The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell. — Marvin Ammori

I'm an inventor. — Lady Gaga

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce

He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor. — Helen Keller

Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor. — C. G. Jung

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? — Bob Monkhouse

An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action. — Debasish Mridha

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. — Kit Williams

I'm an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them. — Hillary Wen, Hildy Wen

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. — Fernando Pessoa

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. — James Dyson

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. — Scott McCloud

Whether you're a writer of stories or a writer of patents, you're an inventor. — Linda A. Tancs

I've been an amature inventor for a long time. — Billy Sheehan

The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow. — Harold Bloom

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. — Charles Kettering

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization. — Thomas A. Edison

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why? — Ayn Rand

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds. — Mark Twain

The French inventor told the acting troupe about Lord Maccon's death. — Gail Carriger

One must be an inventor to read well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man? — Erica Jong

When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor. — Kenneth Jay Lane

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears. — Gary Gygax

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. — Daniel Webster

Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. — Maya Angelou

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling. — Bette Midler

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society. — Edwin Land

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise. — Stephanie Kwolek

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better. — Daniel Ek

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. — E.F. Schumacher

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. — Johnny Carson

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility. — Wyndham Lewis

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. — Michael Nyman

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, — Eli Whitney

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented — Kevin Kelly

It was a little disappointing, really. As an inventor he could at least have had a hunchback assistant, or perhaps a metal one. — Kady Cross

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it? — Ryan Lilly

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. — Thomas De Quincey

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. — Scott Turow

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who? — Isaac Asimov

There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas. — Dana Gould

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

To become an artist you have to be curious. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Coffee and chocolate - the inventor of mocha should be sainted. — Cherise Sinclair

The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. — Charles Kettering

Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye. — Joseph Wood Krutch

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney

When somebody builds me a time machine, I'm taking a trip back in time to find the inventor of the necktie and strangle him with one. — Marc Rainer

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator. — Kanye West

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller

When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor. — Nick Woodman

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney

Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The — Maya Angelou

Let's see what you've got, Dr. Kink E. Inventor — Olivia Cunning

The inventor creates so that life might be better. The writer creates so that we might be better. — Terry Barnes

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others. — H.W. Brands

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art. — Reginald Fessenden

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. — Julian Casablancas

It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention. — Tim Wu

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. — Alexander Pope

An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy. — Chris Brogan

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. — Ayn Rand

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor. — Nathan Myhrvold

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

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember. — Tom Scholz

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich. — David Sarnoff

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination - not vice versa. — Alessandro Volta

I will be keeper of your secret," Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. "I will be the one who remembers why we forget. — Neal Shusterman

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. — Judith Schaechter

It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way. — Kady Cross

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy. — Thomas A. Edison

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

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette