Top 40 Inventive Quotes

The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back – from one genius to another, at least – back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it’s not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I’ve met, and think they’re incredibly witty, inventive – there’s a lot of poetry there.

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye’s best lyrics match Dylan’s prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

I adored ‘Drop the Dead Donkey.’ That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash.

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, ‘What are you going to do now you’re out of uniform?’ I said, ‘I’m pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,’ and he said, ‘Have you thought about being an actor?’

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn’t resemble the original dish at all.

The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still always amazed by the style of French girls, and the only reason is that they dress according to themselves and not according to fashion. They know what suits them.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

People with a lot of money don’t dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won’t come out right.

‘Empty Moves’ is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in people’s living rooms across the country.

Wayne Coyne has put out Flaming Lips records in gummy bear skulls and all these different kinds of packaging that’s really, really inventive. And that’s what you should always do.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song – that’s what makes a 10 out of 10. It’s the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

I feel like the luckiest person alive. I spend my life doing the stuff I love. I’m surrounded by inventive people who are full of energy and life.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Earth is a stunningly lovely planet for so many reasons. Among these is the wondrous presence of curious, artful, inventive humanity.

It’s extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.

Loser lit antiheroes aren’t well intentioned or earnest; they don’t care whether you like them or not. They’re self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

I love Richard Thaler’s ‘Quasi Rational Economics.’ A collection of some of his most interesting and inventive essays, the real foundation of behavioral economics.

It’s just been this incredible steady climb, but I’ve seen a company that believes in me and has let me make mistakes, has let me grow and evolve and try and find new and inventive ways to use me. I feel like I came up through the farm system.

We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn’t take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

Africa’s informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.

The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.

Great music – say jazz – has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

I don’t care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you’re entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it’s repeated use over the years is like, ‘Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.’

A loving heart is an inventive one.

I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

I left the Army in 2000 and went into industry before I started appearing on TV in 2003. My best job there was on a series called ‘Crafty Tricks Of War’ for the BBC. I loved that because it celebrated how clever and inventive people are and the ingenuity that goes into solving problems.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer’s voice or I have no interest in it.

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ’s birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles – it’s international, it’s very positive, it’s inventive and creative.