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.
I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
I like to experiment a lot and invent things.
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.
Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
I think what I've learned most from being an actress is that there's no method. That you have to invent this process over and over and over again, depending on who you're working with and what you're doing.
What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!
What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.
I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.
I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.