Invented Quotes

1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. — Grace Paley
No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. — Claire LaZebnik
I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was… — Lev Grossman
We are a society that constantly celebrates no one but women and it must stop! I want to hear what the men of the world… — Tina Fey
The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented. — John Fowles
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead… — Daniel Handler
I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled… — Khaled Hosseini
War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war. — Dean Hughes
I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. — Sarah Dessen
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he… — William Faulkner
No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness. — Suzanne Brockmann
Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have… — James M. Barrie
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical… — Walter Isaacson
I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin… — Andrei Tarkovsky
You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki. — Carolyn Mackler
She laughed like she'd just invented laughter. — Mira Grant
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by… — Walter Isaacson
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what… — Joseph Campbell
Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior… — Anne Rice
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or… — Henry Ford
There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them. — Sophie Kinsella
He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of… — Tessa Dare
Men invented money Women invented mutual aid — David Mitchell
‎The past is always an invented land. — Orhan Pamuk

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