This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
I expect there will be more schools of any kind that haven't even been invented yet.
I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
The true success is the person who invented himself.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
You can get anything online, including things that don't even exist. We've invented our own collective unconscious. The normal rules of time and space don't apply. It's held together by some other force than gravity. It's endless. It's like some unimaginably huge, messy novel that's writing itself both with and without us.
Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.
The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me.
Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.
This Romeo character is something I decided to create, like my alter ego. So the name Romeo was invented from the original Romeo and Juliet. I wanted to show people I'm like a modern Romeo.
