Invented Quotes

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

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

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

The government invented the Internet.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.