Invented Quotes

1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

I think man invented the car by instinct. — Jack Handey
Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for… — Dan Jenkins
The "magic if" is a tool invented by Stanislavski, the father of acting craft, is to help an actor make appropriate choices. Essentially, the "magic… — Bruce Miller
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to… — Pope John Paul II
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet — Max Beerbohm
I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so… — Anais Nin
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense… — George F. Kennan
No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony. — Heinrich Heine
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful… — Warren Buffett
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts. — Unknown Author
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before,… — Henry Ford
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one… — Margaret Mead
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. — Calvin Trillin
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed… — Edward Bernays
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. — Peter Kreeft
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life. — Arthur Hailey
Philo Farnsworth invented TV at the age of 22. — Philo
I know that God exists. I know that I have never invented anything. I have been a medium by which these things were given to… — Philo
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian… — Unknown Author
From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have… — Jean Giono
I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. — Carl Reiner
Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented… — Barack Obama
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work. — Henry Ford

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