#invent

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. ↗

— Otto Lilienthal

#build #everything #fly #invent #nothing

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#i #i love #invented #inventing #love

Mankind invents things to fight about. ↗

— Mike Love

#fight #invents #mankind #things

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong. ↗

— Robert Maxwell

#children #difference #grown-ups #i #invented

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#avoid #challenging #change #copy #course

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#exploit #human #human race #invented #order

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#apiece #ate #back #booth #borrowed