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Letter "I" » invent
«The best way to predict the future is to invent it.»
«The poet doesn't invent. He listens.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
invent, listens, poet
«I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
current, express, impressions, interpreter, interprets, invent, One of Us, perceived, The Current, The Task, The Word, writer
«To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.»
«Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
backscratcher, dignified, dignifies, dignify, invent
«The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th»
«Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.»
«Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Heart,
Science,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
allies, below, efforts, fit, imaginary, invent, look to, supports
«Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.»
«We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Belief,
Inventions,
Talent
| Keywords:
invent, machines, out of work
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