Invent Quotes

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

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

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

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

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

We can invent only with memory.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

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

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

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.

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.

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

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