#invention

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#capacity #empathize #enables #envision #experiences

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#bring #capitalist #friends #government #i

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #human #human inventions #inventions #just

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#before #characters #classic #direct #doing

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. ↗

— Walter Scott

#any #between #desired #exercising #eyes

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#destruction #devil #falsity #infernal #invention

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#brightest #fire #heaven #invention #muse

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#chaos #consist #creating #does #humbly

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman. ↗

— Joel Silver

#after #back #batman #been #book

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#any #calories #days #eat #every