Invent Quotes

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

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

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

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

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.