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 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.

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.

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

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

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.

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

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.

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

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

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

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.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

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.

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.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

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'.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.