Quotes About Invention

I always created things, layered things on top of each other. That hasn't changed at all. With this first album, it was basically a celebration of that process of inventing and building sounds.

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?

I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

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.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to... you start to lose your memory. You start to lose your confidence. You start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Technology has always been a catalyst for change, such as the invention of the airplane or the Internet.

Failure is your invention.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.