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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became… — Lev Yilmaz
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since… — Anthony Powell
Birds are not free since Men have invented cages. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with… — Johnny Vegas
Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second. — Rosa Luxemburg
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra.… — P.J. O'Rourke
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try… — Mark Twain
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every… — Hermann Bondi
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion... — Marshall McLuhan
Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it. — Yukio Mishima
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that… — Augusto Roa Bastos
I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented. — Rutger Hauer
I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term. — Chuck D
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. — Harrison Birtwistle
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true. — Mario Balotelli
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel… — Anne Carson
I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to… — Bill Condon
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy… — Eugene Chadbourne
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence… — Ricky Jay
The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take… — John Doolittle
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science… — Joshua Foer
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes… — Adam Gopnik
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar,… — Lascelles Abercrombie
I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one. — Andy Borowitz
Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth.… — Paul Feig

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