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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening -… — Arnold Palmer
There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and… — James Patterson
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying… — Pablo Picasso
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. — Pablo Picasso
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force… — Steven Pinker
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. — Dan Quayle
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. — Anna Quindlen
School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man. — Chris Rock
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for… — Richard Roeper
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. — Leo Rosten
Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and… — David Lee Roth
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. — Muriel Rukeyser
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual… — Salman Rushdie
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making… — Jerry Saltz
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. — Eric Schmidt
Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture. — Eric Schmidt
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest… — Rob Sheffield
I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He… — Jane Smiley
I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born. — Martha Stewart
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. — Jonathan Swift
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. — Lily Tomlin
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries

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