The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy for example or the little wheelie guy he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

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

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did the Neville Brothers did and they're there the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.