I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
Yusuf Hamied
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
David Hockney
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
Steve Lacy
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
Norman MacCaig
Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
John Gresham Machen
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen
Architecture is invention.
Oscar Niemeyer
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor