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I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'
— Kevin James
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
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.
— Guillermo Del Toro
God must've had single women in mind when he invented dogs
— Kristan Higgins
Believe it or not, kids, duct tape was not invented so you could make trashy little wallets and hideous handbags out of it. I
— C.M. Stunich
I don't know who thought up waxing, but it was clearly the same person who invented Vicodin.
— Chelsea Handler
She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
— Junot Diaz
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
— Christopher Moore
Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell ...
— Cherise Sinclair
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.
— Kirkpatrick Sale
I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.
— Rutger Hauer
Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.
— Amit Kalantri
Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
— Mathieu Amalric
The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.
— Drew
So much of the news was invented for propaganda.
— Elsa Morante
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
— Famke Janssen
I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling.
— Danielle Ellison
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
— George Bernard Shaw
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
— Tobias Smollett
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
— Stuart Weitzman
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me,
— Brian Oldfield
Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet.
— Philip Reeve
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
— Jack Vance
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.
— Michael Marshall Smith
The "coffee break" - as a phrase and concept - was invented in 1952 by the Pan American Coffee Bureau. It quickly became a part of the language, as
— Mark Pendergrast
The government invented the Internet.
— Jon Meacham
A true story is never quite so true as an invented one.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.
— Li Yuanchao
Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen
— Kathleen Collins
You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
— Kenneth Rexroth
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
— Benjamin Franklin
I obviously invented Solipsism
— Dean Cavanagh
If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.
— James Plunkett
It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
— Honore De Balzac
I definitely invented the everything bagel. There's no doubt. It's undeniable truth. It's one of those things that's 100% true, 50% of the time.
— Joe Bastianich
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
— Lord Mountbatten
Stories are invented as you go along...
— Orson Scott Card
[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
— Ethel Barrymore
Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.
— Seth MacFarlane
Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.
— Stewart Francis
I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.
— Tim Berners-Lee
here. I invented
— Mary Campisi
I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.
— Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
— Luis Bunuel
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.
— J.G. Ballard
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
— Clarice Lispector
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
— Michel Foucault
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
— John Steinbeck
I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
Whoever invented karaoke is evil. They should be shot between the eyes with a dull bullet.
— Emma Chase
I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all.
— Helmut Lang
If you gave a bag of potato chips to the guy who invented Pringles, he'd look at you like you were trying to hand him an abortion.
— Dana Gould
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
— Peter Davison
I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.
— Amitav Ghosh
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
— Mary Quant
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
— Orson Scott Card
Whoever invented adding melted cheese over starchy goodness was surely the most brilliant human ever.
— Rachel Cohn
One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.
— Lev Shestov
A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?
— Graham Kendall
If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
— Arthur C. Clarke
And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing.
— Jackie Kessler
Invented the #hashtag.
— Chris Messina
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
— Pablo Picasso
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
— Calvin Trillin
Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.
— Clare Wright
My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
— Herman Melville
I invented it, Bill made it famous.
— David Bradley
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
— Jerry Falwell
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
— Frank Capra
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
— Oscar Wilde
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
— David Lloyd George
Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.
— Henry Chadwick
The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.
— Tim Kreider
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
— Antoni Gaudi
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
CORV: Honour! tut, a breath: There's no such thing, in nature: a mere term Invented to awe fools.
— Ben Jonson
Every little boy thinks he invented sin.
— John Steinbeck
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
— Will Rogers
Who invented my life?
— Bernard Malamud