Invented Quotes
1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors
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Look, this is a man, he's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, but…
— George W. Bush
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With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to…
— Rajneesh
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... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is…
— Unknown Author
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KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things with which he was…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
— Walter Isaacson
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Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion…
— Unknown Author
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I think we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community.
— Newt Gingrich
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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
— Mark Twain
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Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
— Virginia Woolf
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Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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So much of the news was invented for propaganda.
— Elsa Morante
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Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for…
— Sayyid Qutb
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Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven’t invented blue grass.
— Jock Stein
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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were…
— Walter Russell
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One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about.…
— Oriana Fallaci
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
— Ogden Nash
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The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
— Robert Maxwell
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Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
— Auberon Waugh
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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…
— Will Cuppy
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I bet what happend was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.
— Jack Handey
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