Invented Quotes

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

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.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.