#invent

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now. ↗

— Eminem

#came #change #done #i #much

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ↗

— Douglas Engelbart

#digital #even #far #invention #more

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#country #devil #idea #invented #keep

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#admirers #ago #been #buried #cemetery

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#invent #know #must #procure #rulers

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #had #invent #inventing #invents

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#architecture #been #could #foreseen #gothic

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#after #asks #because #beforehand #book

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. ↗

— Bob Black

#daily life #edge #life #maps #marching

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#existed #hadn #horribly #i #invented