#invent

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. ↗

— Keith Richards

#had #how #invent #life #machinery

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#called #integrity #invention #may #mother

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man. ↗

— Chris Rock

#invented #man #school #shootings #stolen

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice. ↗

— Russell Banks

#could #grows #having #hear #her

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure. ↗

— Julie Christie

#invented #just #marriage #marry #never

I didn't just invent saying offensive things. ↗

— Eminem

#invent #just #offensive #saying #things

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#failures #his #inventor #once #practice

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#god #hadn #invented #meant #sugar

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#background #character #fiction #had #i

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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