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Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does… — Robert M. Pirsig
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. — Federico Fellini
Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to… — Jacob Bronowski
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. — Henri Poincare
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection.… — Phyllis McGinley
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and… — Phyllis McGinley
Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once. — Thomas Cole
Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks. — Joni Mitchell
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination. — Aharon Appelfeld
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew. — Lord Mountbatten
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make… — Ted Nelson
I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined… — Mark Pincus
There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls. — Elton John
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her. — Amy Lee
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close… — David Leavitt
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. — Diane Lane
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities -… — Nancy Pearcey
Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to… — Thomas Perry
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really… — Burt Rutan
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole… — Charles Caleb Colton
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years… — Frederick Lenz
I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster… — Sebastian Thrun
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about. — Marguerite Young
Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way,… — Irvine Welsh

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