America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

- Jimmy Carter

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

- Nancy Duarte

If I need something, I'll invent it.

- Mickey Spillane

'The Sopranos' only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn't invent it. And I say that as a fan of both 'The Sopranos' and New Jersey.

- Kevin Bleyer

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

- Kathy Ireland

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

- John Maynard Smith

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

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

- Juliette Binoche

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

- Jim Crace

Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.

- John Burroughs

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

- Auguste Rodin

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

- Jean Cocteau

To invent is to discern, to choose.

- Henri Poincare

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

- Germaine Greer

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

- Erno Rubik

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

- Eminem

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

- Donna Tartt

My training and my inclination is to invent.

- Darin Strauss

Every two years, to keep Moore's Law happening, you have to invent... That's where I grew up.

- Brian Krzanich

We can invent only with memory.

- Alphonse Karr