Invented Quotes
1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
— Lily Tomlin
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The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
— Eric Hoffer
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The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat…
— Oliver Herford
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Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.
— Loren Cunningham
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I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of…
— Harold Bloom
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There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device…
— Barack Obama
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly…
— C.S. Lewis
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I'd like to meet the person who invented sex and see what they're working on now.
— Groucho Marx
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If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.
— Nathan Fielder
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Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaƱo playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if…
— Stacey D'Erasmo
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And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.
— Barack Obama
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Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize…
— Kim Stanley
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There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut…
— Craig Ferguson
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I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb,
— John Mellencamp
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I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when…
— Jen Hatmaker
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If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could…
— Tim Pratt
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But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I…
— Dabney Coleman
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A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A film in which…
— Owen Gleiberman
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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
— Lewis Carroll
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I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and…
— Winston Churchill
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There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
— Jim Fowler
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Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!
— Craig Reucassel
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Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However,…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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