Invented Quotes

1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it. — Tom Robbins
Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented. — Joyce Carol Oates
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams — Evan Esar
Yes, I am a terrorist, and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government and against Israel, because you are more… — Unknown Author
I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have invented and created.… — Franco Zeffirelli
Whoever invented the spork should be killed. — Neal Shusterman
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun… — Jack Prelutsky
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of — Orson Pratt
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a… — Louis Schwartzberg
We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and… — Peter Greenaway
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary… — Aldous Huxley
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down.… — James Salter
I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic? — Ben Shapiro
If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich. — Earl Nightingale
If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time. — John Ray
The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language… — Rob Brezsny
I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and… — Hugo Ball
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. — Steven Millhauser
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact. — Stewart O'Nan
Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any… — Bill N. Lacy
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man… — Eric Hoffer
It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan. — Unknown Author
Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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