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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves. — Earl Monroe
Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. — Henry Chadwick
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. — Peter Davison
Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right… — Andrew Wiles
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to… — Andrew Wiles
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure… — Simon Callow
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which… — Alva Myrdal
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it. — Erno Rubik
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. — Bruce Catton
Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was… — Daryl Hannah
The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem… — John Lawson
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. — Don DeLillo
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. — Earl Wilson
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of… — Henry Cabot Lodge
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining… — Erik Satie
The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to… — Fareed Zakaria
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. — Tom Shadyac
The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China. — Li Yuanchao
I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food. — Mike Newell
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition. — Michel Onfray
When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of… — Sheldon Whitehouse
Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would… — James Salter
Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment — Arnold Bennett
His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying… — Pablo Picasso

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