Inventing Quotes

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?

Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

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.

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and leather jackets.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

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

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.

Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.