If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.
Estelle Morris

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
Steve Lacy

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
Emile M. Cioran

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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.
Nhat Hanh

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
Ray Dolby

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
Oliver Evans

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Murray Kempton

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

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
Audre Lorde

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
Todd Rundgren

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.
William Bernbach

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
Oscar Robertson

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren G. Bennis

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
John Le Carre

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche