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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

The government invented the Internet. — Jon Meacham
No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is… — John Zorn
I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing. — Quentin Tarantino
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as… — Ingmar Bergman
Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually… — Terry Gilliam
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but… — Charlton Laird
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life,… — Bill Forsyth
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. — Ogden Nash
Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails. — Maurice Bowra
Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those… — Peter York
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds.… — Novalis
At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention… — Ambrose Bierce
I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator. — Rudy Giuliani
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about… — Thomas A. Edison
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the… — Michel de Montaigne
Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple. — Albert Einstein
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in… — Dave Barry
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde
Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? — George Carlin
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating… — Thomas Carlyle

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