Quotes of: Invention Keyword

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Northrop Frye

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.

Invented August: An Imperfect Escape to Capri

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.

Just the Way I Feel

The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

Shantaram

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

Mine Till Midnight

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

Notes from Underground

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

The Mark of Athena

People are not interested in truths; they are interested in inventions.

Seeds of Transformation: Choosing to Live an Authentic Life

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

Cameron Mackintosh

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Orson Welles

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

Peter Diamandis

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Piaget

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

Paul Rand

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Rudolf Arnheim

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Robin Marantz Henig

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

Rupert Holmes

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

Sue Grafton

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Steve Lacy

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Steven Millhauser