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Nobody ever invents anything You're inspired and sometimes you can improve.
— Sebastien Foucan
Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
— Gustave Flaubert
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
— Michel De Certeau
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist ...
— Ernest Gellner
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
— Marshall McLuhan
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents
— Robert Browning
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
— Susan Sontag
Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?
— Azzedine Alaia
Mankind invents things to fight about.
— Mike Love
Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.
— Geoffrey Wolff
With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.
— Sophie Hunger
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
— Alfred Kinsey
A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
— Elbert Hubbard
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
— Joseph Conrad
So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.
— Samuel Beckett
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
— Diane Setterfield
Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything.
— John Steinbeck
I prefer music that invents a universe.
— Matthew Bellamy
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
— Thor Heyerdahl
Our imagination it is our greatest ally ... Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.
— Glen Hansard
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
— Gustave Flaubert
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
— George Bernard Shaw
A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.
— Michael E. Gerber
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
— Jose Saramago
As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.
— Gero Miesenbock
THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.
— Werner Herzog
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
— Heinrich Heine
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
— Joyce Carol Oates
American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
— Will Rogers
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
— Oscar Wilde
The truly original artist invents his own signs.
— Henri Matisse
Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.
— Don Cornelius
So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.
— Friedrich Schiller
To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.
— Margaret Mead
The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
— W. Edwards Deming
The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.
— Norman Douglas
When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.
— Donald Miller
Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Man invents nothing God did not create first.
— Mitch Albom
The best propaganda omits rather than invents
— Mason Cooley
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
— Walter Darby Bannard
You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.
— Anthony Head
...it is the man of the night who invents, the man of the morning is nothing but a scribe.
— Francois Augieras
You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.
— MC Hammer
When writing fantasynovels, one must be careful what one
invents. For every benefit, there is
usually a drawback. — J.K. Rowling
Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.
— Alexis De Tocqueville