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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. — Lech Walesa
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do… — Andy Warhol
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. — Earl Warren
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. — Simone Weil
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. — Bernard Williams
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of… — A. N. Wilson
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the… — Daniel H. Wilson
Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong.… — Jonathan Winters
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. — P.G. Wodehouse
I invented the cordless extension cord. — Steven Wright
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. — Andrew Young
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to… — Michael Eric Dyson
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag. — Caitlin Moran
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. — Laurence J. Peter
My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the… — Shel Silverstein
There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are.… — Marya Hornbacher
Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession… — Nawal El Saadawi
This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going… — Chuck Palahniuk
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. — John Steinbeck
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human… — Graham Greene
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie… — Tom Stoppard
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. — Don DeLillo
I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see.… — Andy Warhol
The truth is the thing I invented so I could live. — Nicole Krauss

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