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Quotes About Invent

When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
~ Oscar Hijuelos
Cómo se inventa uno una religión? —preguntó Evie. Will la miró por encima de los cristales de sus gafas. —Dices 'Dios me ha dicho lo siguiente', y luego esperas a que la gente se apunte.
~ Libba Bray
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Our greatest emperor, Caesar, is only linked to a salad. And he didn't even invent it.
~ Douglas E. Richards
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
~ Dr. Seuss
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
~ Terry Pratchett
There was a midsummer restlessness abroad--early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present--or, if there was no present, to invent one.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet.
~ Todd Rundgren
The ways in which mankind tends to invent technology is because we have this drive to create and to innovate, and we don't necessarily pump the brakes when we're doing it.
~ Lisa Joy
Moreover, fascists do not invent the myths and symbols that compose the rhetoric of their movements but select those that suit their purposes from within the national cultural repertories. Most of these have no inherent or necessary link to fascism.
~ Robert O. Paxton
Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination," the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more reflective voice she asked, "Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
~ Robin Hobb
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Why are you afraid to submit to the annihilation of such stupid meaningless unreal knowledge. This is the abyss. Everything is green, love, without the logical fantastic equivocations that we invent so that we won't actually have to face each other.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I suspected that I would reach the end only at my own death, and was fascinated by the idea that I was another character in the story, and that I had the power to determine my fate, or invent a life for myself.
~ ALLENDE, Isabel
But a voting-machine that human ingenuity can not pervert, human ingenuity can not invent. That
~ Ambrose Bierce
Don't strive to be a leader in your category. Create a different category, and be the only one in it.
~ Joe Calloway
A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
~ Millicent Fenwick
I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.
~ Edward Albee
If I was a princess-a real princess, she murmured, I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if i am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for the people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that doing things that people like is scattering largess. I've scattered largess.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward—then you invent the reasons. My
~ Frances Mayes
'The Sopranos' only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn't invent it. And I say that as a fan of both 'The Sopranos' and New Jersey.
~ Kevin Bleyer
For us, the Soviet constitution had no meaning. Everybody knew these were just words that had no relation to real life. In this country, the Constitution is meaningful. We have an independent judiciary. We have to protect it. We don't need to invent anything new—we just need to have the courage to protect what we have.
~ Rod Dreher
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
~ Roger Zelazny
I'm sure people did question whether Italian printers were quite the right people to legislate on the meaning of everything; but on the other hand, resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.
~ Lynne Truss