#venting

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#i #i love #inventing #love #scenarios

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#came #games #incredible #inventing #inventions

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#combination #inventing #less #material #materials

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#actions #bad #been #doing #doing good

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#america #exporting #inventing #making #now

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#consists #enjoying #generally #greatest #greatest pleasure

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now. ↗

— Clare Short

#dealing #discussion #finding #going #honest

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#opposed #pregnancies #preventing #should #unintended

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes