#invent

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#completely #consequent #control #definition #difficulty

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#invented #killing #nobody #polite #word

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#i #invent #now #people #stars

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there. ↗

— Will Rogers

#conceives #gets #getting #inventions #many

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#blood #conversely #downfall #great #heroes

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie? ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#characters #compelling #creative #energy #enough

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#entirely #feel #henry #i #i feel

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#i #learned #quality #reinvention