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Quotes About Invent

There's certain key dance crazes that are just so much fun - wouldn't that be a great thing to do, to invent a dance?
~ Whit Stillman
I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means I ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
~ Milan Kundera
I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means i ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
~ Milan Kundera
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
~ R. L. Stine
His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac. What he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way. He gave many flies to one spider and many spiders to one bird, and then wanted a cat to eat the many birds. What would have been his later steps?
~ Bram Stoker
For now we have enough to worry about. Let's not invent new things.
~ Terry Goodkind
Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders they have managed to invent boredom? Quite astonishing!
~ Terry Pratchett
Nowadays only cosmologists and particle physicists are allowed to invent new kinds of matter when they want to explain why their theories totally fail to match observed reality.
~ Terry Pratchett
He is credited with inventing the story of Spock's sex life, as well as the famous Vulcan greeting, "Live long and prosper," and (with Leonard Nimoy) its accompanying hand signal.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
I didn't invent the word 'hyphy' and I'm not trying to say I'm the king of hyphy.
~ E-40
Clarity must come from us. It seems we must envision our own journeys, make our own maps, and create our own compasses. To get the answers we seek, we have to invent the right questions—and we're left to devise our own. So how do you do this? How do you come up with uncommon questions that take you to uncommon answers?
~ Gary Keller
God invents musical theatre. Satan voluntarily opts for Hell.
~ Brian Andreas
I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.
~ Howard Kerr
Take what you have and make what you want.
~ Hilda Charlton
goodness is ours to dispense. It's a currency that each of us gets to invent and denominate. David's had pictures of Chopin and Keith Richards on it. Mine had my dog.
~ Sue Halpern
The way I try to simplify my job is that I have two lists - I have a list of all the crazy, interesting problems that I get to solve every day or that need to be solved, and I have a crazy list of things I'd like to invent. And I kind of just prioritize them and work my way down, and try to simplify what I do when managing a big company.
~ Travis Kalanick
There would be time enough later on to hide the dead and invent stories. Now was the moment to pull out the knives and pay homage to cruelty. Wars soil everything, but they clean the memory.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But if there isn't a right way to do things you have to invent one.
~ Caryl Churchill
For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.
~ Gavin Hood
It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.
~ Antonin Scalia
Ignorance of naturall causes disposeth a man to Credulity, so as to believe many times impossibilities: for such know nothing to the contrary, but that they may be true; being unable to detect the Impossibility. And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Myth is the revelation of divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather it speaks to us as a Word of God. No science will ever replace myth, and a myth cannot be made out of any science. For it is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather it speaks to us as a Word of God.
~ C.G. Jung