An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
Benoit Mandelbrot

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
Helmut Jahn

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
David Antin

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.
Paul Daniels

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

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.
Christiaan Barnard

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
Jerry B. Jenkins

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
Suzanne Vega

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
Sam Farr

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
Bo Bennett

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
Carol P. Christ

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles Kettering

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

Man keeps inventing things all the time.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
Ulrich Beck

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
Lynn Johnston

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

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
Joseph Barbera