Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work. — Roelof Botha Copy Share Image
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented.… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.' — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas… — James Heywood Copy Share Image
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves. — Earl Monroe Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
