In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
. . . my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers. . . I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'
The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
We learn more when we are compelled to invent.
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots. '' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities
When there is no hope, one must invent hope.