Invented Quotes

1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. — Gerald Stanley Lee
Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping… — Thomas Boswell
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the… — Henri Matisse
God invented man, and man invented the metric system. — Salvador Dali
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity. — Austin O'Malley
Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence. — Paul Theroux
The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship? — Sarah Jessica Parker
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI
The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature… — Morris Graves
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A… — Adolf Loos
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man… — Jacques Lipchitz
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter
Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not… — Walter J. Phillips
When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want… — Jay Moore
While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to… — Eric Maisel
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente
I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered… — Richard Diebenkorn
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce… — Luther Burbank
Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would… — Will Rogers
You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have… — Will Rogers
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the… — Matthew Arnold
A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in. — Dylan Thomas
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he… — Orson Welles
People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one… — Rajneesh
Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood. — Joy Browne

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