Quotes about Invention

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it's an absolute toss-up, isn't it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.