Inventing Quotes - Page 2

• Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Judging, Age, Literature

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• The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Analysis, Logical

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.7, Routledge

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• There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

  George Orwell

  People, Phrases, Trouble

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• It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

  Daniel Webster

  Men, House, Invention

  "The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster".

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• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

  Samuel Beckett

  Heart, Thinking, Escaping

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Jeremiah Wright

  Stupid, Mean, Government

  "The full story behind Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon". The CNN Interview, ac360.blogs.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.

  Claudia Gray

  Guy, Wanted, Like Me

  Claudia Gray (2009). “Evernight”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Poor, Britain

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• You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

  Richard Bach

  Song, Years, Giving

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• What if I never stop inventing?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  What If, Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Heaven, Mind, Atheism

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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• People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

  Libba Bray

  Believe, Order, People

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• ... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

  Brian Setzer

  Music, Rocks, Track

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• I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Needs, Said, Know How

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  John le Carre

  Unhappy Childhood, People, Literature

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• If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Character, Civilization, Games

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

  Al Gore

  Funny, Tired, Night

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• Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

  Gary Hamel

  Serendipity, Matter, Facts

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• I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Intuition, Way, Scientist

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.134, Macmillan

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• Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

  Don DeLillo

  Ruins, Scales, Persistent

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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• My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Exercise, Thinking

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• The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

  Jeff Bezos

  Stubborn, Flexible, Hard

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• O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Heaven, Muse

  'Henry V' (1599) chorus, l. 1

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• For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Stories, Pleasure

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.233, Penguin

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