Inventin Quotes & Sayings

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. — William Kempe

Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure. — John Dryden

Discipline is a demand of life. — Sunday Adelaja

That impresses me more, inventin' electricity. — Karl Pilkington

I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running. — Sylvia Plath

Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style. — Stacy London

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself. — Mason Cooley

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. — Robert Casey

Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago:
Park was covered with skin. Everywhere. — Rainbow Rowell

Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens ... inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the nature of things unattainable. Such ideas were well judged to appeal to a student of rhetoric who had learned to argue all sides of a case. In his early twenties Cicero wrote the first two volumes of a work on 'inventin'
that is to say, the technique of finding ideas and arguments for a speech; in it he noted that the most important thing was 'that we do not recklessly and presumptuously assume something to be true.' This resolute uncertainty was to be a permanent feature of his thought. — Anthony Everitt