#invent

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #change #disturbing #find #fixed

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#arm #asthmatic #carrying #equalled #his

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#habits #house #indoor #inside #invention

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. ↗

— David Horowitz

#been #beginning #constitutional #court #court decision

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#books #comic #comic books #directed #great

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fresh-starts #new-beginnings #reinvention #time #change

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#cannot #content #fitting #fitting in #ideas

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

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

Getting caught is the mother of invention. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#getting #invention #mother

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #because #been #ensure #eve