Quotes of: Invention Keyword

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

Marc Jacobs

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

Mike Shinoda

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it...

Rob Sheffield

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

Anatomy of a Boyfriend

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to from falling in love?

Anatomy of a Boyfriend

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

Anna Karenina

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

The Accidental Mistress

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist

I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?

Hollywood Nobody

Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.

Jane Austen And Her Art

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Small Town Demons

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

The Stream Of Life

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

The Silkworm

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

Land Mines and Ladyboys: Flirting with Danger in Thailand and Cambodia

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

One of Us

The Internet is an excellent invention for people with nothing better to do, and people with something better to do who nonetheless don't want to do it.

Psychopomp Volume One: Cracked Plate

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

Prodigal Summer

God created the heavens, while the devil created doubt. Here is a short list of Lucifer's other notable inventions: matches, the lighter, the flamethrower, and George Burns.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

John Wilkinson invented the horizontal boring machine, and what a boring machine it was! In fact, it’s so boring that I think I’ll go to sleep now.

This Book is Not FOR SALE