Inventing Quotes - Page 5

• A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Directors, Circus

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• 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.

  Carol P. Christ

  Art, Discovery, Europe

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• I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

  Nancy Mitford

  Writing, Misery, Pleasure

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Shy, Aptitude

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

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• I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sleep, Phrases, Enough

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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

  Seth Godin

  Creative, Answers, Findings

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• When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

  Bill Buxton

  Tools, Helping, Description

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• There is no re-inventing the wheel.

  Sean Penn

  Wheels

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• 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.

  Alastair Campbell

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Training, Important, No Hope

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• Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

  Samuel Morse

  Dream, Children, Reality

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• If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

  George Gobel

  Animal, Invention, Inventor

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• The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Heart, Idols

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• If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.

  Tim Pratt

  Love, Romantic, War

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• You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'

  David Keirsey

  New York, Thinking, Light

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• I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

  Suzanne Vega

  Character, Stories, Making Up

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• The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner working out which precedes the external has a twofold characteristic: the participation of the subconscious in the inventing subject; and that encounter with an external power which demands and obtains complete subjugation, so that the way to the solution is experienced as the fitting of one's own imagination to this power.

  Friedrich Dessauer

  Science, Law, Work Out

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• I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.

  Billy Zane

  Past, Thinking, Attention

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• Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Surfing, Moments, Wave

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.25, Penguin

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• You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.

  Ann Douglas

  Religious, Honesty, Duplicity

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• I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beautiful, Jealous, Moon

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this could happen," "this is quite plausible." But I don't feel I know enough about border life to do the latter.

  William T. Vollmann

  Memories, Character, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

  Aristotle

  Wish, May, Assuming

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• If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Writing, Years

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