As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.
I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology.
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
