Inventing Quotes

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.