But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty
Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.
