#invent

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#invent #listens #poet

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#apple #art #better #computers #create

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. ↗

— George Combe

#agent #alter #aspects #cases #evidence

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. ↗

— William Congreve

#brain #brown #despair #flags #goes

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#found #goes #longer #much #oneself

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#because #brothers #did #enormous #guys

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#build #down #gadgets #i #invent

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#how #invent #must #old #old ones