Inventing Quotes - Page 6

• I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.

  Shaun White

  Simple, Leather Jackets, Gold

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.

  Andrew Bird

  Challenges, Littles, Ass

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

  John McPhee

  Letters, Action

  John McPhee (2011). “The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Actors, World

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die - when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream - the greedy need?

  Giannina Braschi

  Dream, Reality, Greed

  "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

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• We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it.

  Francoise Gilot

  Men, Feet, Criticism

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• Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

  William Zinsser

  Art, Memoir

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 12: Writing About Yourself: The Memoir, p. 99), 1976.

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• The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Ideas, Mind, Adults

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• A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.

  B. B. King

  Cancer, Thinking, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

  Caterina Fake

  Trying, Hell, Knows

  "Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops. Exclusive Q&A". Interview with Adam L. Penenberg, www.fastcompany.com. December 10, 2009.

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• I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

  Nelly

  Rapper, Battle, Energy

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• When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

  Ben Okri

  Reality

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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• I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Giving, Thanks

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• But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

  Fred Astaire

  Attitude, Thinking, Corn

  "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (pp. 6-7), 1959.

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• One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

  Stephen Hawking

  Technology, Leader, Weapons

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• You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Mom, Dog, Laughing

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.11, SCB Distributors

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• The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Lying, Expression, Order

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• Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Mean, Giving, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

  John Irving

  Writing, Stories, Want

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• our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.

  Sally Helgesen

  Choices, Effort, Trends

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• With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.

  Brittany Murphy

  Technology, People, Scary

  Interview with Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 21, 2009.

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• Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed in the right direction, but don't get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

  Douglas Pagels

  Thinking, Rushing, New Day

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• The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

  Arthur Miller

  Kings, Play, People

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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• On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Work Out, Phrases

  Source: und.edu

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• I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

  J. K. Rowling

  Notebook, Character, Names

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