Invented Quotes

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.