#invent

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#allows #because #camera #digital #great

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. ↗

— John le Carre

#chaos #i #i am #making #order

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#because #i #i think #inventive #new

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #birds #down #dozen

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#children #giving #happy #ignore #invented

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#invented #person #phrase #poor

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by. ↗

— Alan Coren

#chocolate #clock #cuckoo #give #invented

I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#before #being #cast #character #charge

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#forgets #homo #homo sapiens #inventions #invents