The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?
I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
I'm one of those people that's listened to so much music, I feel like I've soaked it all and not rejected anything, so it's all present there when I'm in my inventing room.
People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.
If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.
Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.
I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.
I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
Pep always keeps inventing new things. He is magic. I hope he can win the Champions League with City.
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
You have to stick to your plan. Throwing everything overboard and inventing something on the spot does not make sense. You will never get that from me.
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.
The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That's all it's about.
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.
I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.
I'm not going to give quotes about inventing the 'beach book,' but I was certainly at the forefront of it.
For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
Yes, I was the one people credit with inventing the cell phone. Now, whenever anyone gets a dropped call, they blame me.
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.
Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.
Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.
Madam Walker, as part of the first generation out of slavery, really was inventing the way that she operated in the world.
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
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.
I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.
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