Quotes about invention

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“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”

“Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.”

“When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.”

“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.”

“I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.”

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."

"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

“Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.”

“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”

“You can never tell about a person by guessing… that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.”

“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”

“Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.”

“There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”

“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”

“If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with.”

“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”

“Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.”

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”

“Oh my god, I am so awesome!" Leo bellowed.
"So awesome!" Echo yelled back.
"He is funny," a nymph ventured.
"And cute, in a scrawny way," another said.
"Scrawny?" Leo asked. "Baby I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.”

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“It's the movies that have been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.”

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”

“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”

“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”

“TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”

“"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see —
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.”

“Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.”

“How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”

“Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.”

“Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.”

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”

“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”

“What if I never stop inventing?”

“All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.”

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”

“He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.”

“Remembering is just an invention of the mind… It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not… You don't need a time machine if you can remember.”

“I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.”

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

“We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings
― Sue Monk Kidd”

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”

“We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.”

“It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.”

“Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.”

“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”

“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”

“If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”

“We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.”

“Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a bigsound.”

“Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.”

“It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.”

“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”

“For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.”

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.”

“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”

“If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.”

“You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.”

“I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.”

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

“Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.”

“Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabret”

“They chose the olive"
"They must really like olives"
"Forget it"
"Now if she invented pizza that i can understand"
-Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif”

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.”

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.”

“You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.”

“There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”

“Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”

“Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.”

“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

“Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.”

“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”

“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!”

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

“remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.”

“Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.”

“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.”

“To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.”

“I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play”

“The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.”

“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions”

“To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.”

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. “It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?”
“Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it,” said Will.”

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent”

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”

“I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.”

“I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.”

“Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.”

“This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”

“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.”

“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”

“If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.”

“CALVIN:
When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.”

“You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.”