Invent Quotes

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.