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Play! Invent the world! Invent reality! -- Vladimir Nabokov
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself. -- Charles Bukowski
Invent a new language anyone can understand. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion. -- Kellan Lutz
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. -- David Mamet
Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you. -- Sark
Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks. -- William Carlos Williams
Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, colours, sounds and work that nourish your soul" -- S.A.R.K.
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. -- Ray Dolby
Invent new drugs, that's what you should be doing... fight to get new weirder ones... and weirder establishments to do them in. -- Doug Stanhope
That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons. -- Ann Coulter
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. -- Jeff Bezos
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. -- Jeff Bezos
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas A. Edison
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. -- Voltaire
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. -- Jimmy Carter
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. -- Otto Lilienthal
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. -- Elias Canetti
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. -- Patricia Cornwell
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. -- Warren Bennis
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method. -- Willem Dafoe
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. -- Axl Rose
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. -- Keith Richards
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. -- Jeff Bezos
There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating. -- Sidney Sheldon
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. -- John Dos Passos
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future. -- Thomas Sankara
I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin. -- Mads Mikkelsen
The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship. -- Sugata Mitra
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? -- Steven Pinker
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about. -- Henry Bessemer
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. -- David Bailey
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest. -- Vanna Bonta
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place. -- Lorrie Moore
Let's go invent tomorrow! -- Steve Jobs
I invent nothing, I rediscover. -- Auguste Rodin
Remember. Or, failing that, invent. -- Monique Wittig
To understand is to invent. -- Jean Piaget
You have to invent life. -- Agnes Varda
What we invent, we become -- Marty Rubin
We can invent only with memory. -- Alphonse Karr
The poet doesn't invent. He listens. -- Jean Cocteau
All really interesting girls invent themselves. -- Anna Godbersen
Dictators never invent their own opportunities. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I didn't just invent saying offensive things. -- Eminem
We must dare to invent the future -- Thomas Sankara
To invent is to discern, to choose. -- Henri Poincare
If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it. -- Jennifer Aniston
If I need something, I'll invent it. -- Mickey Spillane
You did not invent marriage. God did. -- Ken Ham
People invent gods to explain their suffering. -- Mason Cooley
What some people invent the rest enlarge. -- Jonathan Swift
What one man can invent, another can discover. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent. -- Joseph Joubert
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. -- Pierre Bonnard
Hip-hop didn't invent anything"¦ hip-hop re-invented everything. -- Grandmaster Caz
We don't invent our missions, we detect them. -- Stephen Covey
You have to invent the future you want. -- Vinod Khosla
God forgives those who invent what they need. -- Lillian Hellman
You want to invent new ideas, not rules -- Dan Heath
We invent the past and remember the future. -- Isak Dinesen
At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend -- Lance Armstrong
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom. -- Bernard Malamud
Since you may never discover the truth, invent it. -- Nicholas Lore
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. -- Honore de Balzac
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. -- Frank Kermode
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. -- Germaine Greer
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent. -- Bill Joy
We invent what we love and what we fear. -- John Irving
Lies have always been easier to invent than reality. -- Marty Rubin
Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
You wan't to invent new ideas, not new rules. -- Dan Heath
I like to experiment a lot and invent things. -- Kathy Ireland
When there is no hope, one must invent hope. -- Albert Camus
How we are born to invent our own miseries! -- Sophia Lee
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Where there is no hope, we must invent it. -- Albert Camus
We learn more when we are compelled to invent. -- Jean Piaget
Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent. -- Kevin Kelly
Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature. -- Diane Ackerman
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war. -- Walter Dean Myers
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball. -- Peter Pook
Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself. -- Michael Caine
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth. -- Yann Martel
When the enemy has no face, society will invent one. -- Susan Faludi
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it. -- Alan Kay
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it. -- Igor Stravinsky
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it. -- Alan Kay
I try not to invent things that people don't need. -- Thomas A. Edison
I use my mind to solve problems and invent things. -- Temple Grandin
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world. -- Umberto Eco
An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it... -- Willem de Kooning
You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them. -- Bill Gates
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves. -- Jean Piaget
Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future! -- Philippe Kahn
I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world. -- David Batstone
History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent. -- Eça De Queirós
Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday. -- Steve Jobs
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. -- Jamais Cascio
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. -- Margaret Atwood
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future. -- Seth Godin
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. -- Paul Simon
The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I do not see the world at all; I invent it. -- Franz Kafka
We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work. -- Steve Lacy
It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives. -- Raoul Vaneigem
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle. -- Oscar Wilde
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay
How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy. -- Saul Bellow
We must use what we have to invent what we desire. -- Adrienne Rich
I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. -- Sylvia Kristel
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch. -- Vinod Khosla

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