Invented Quotes

Bit yells, Homeless Hungry? Dude, I invented Homeless Hungry. The kid just waves. — Jess Walter

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

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for very evil purposes. — Francis Lieber

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

Even the hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him. — Saki

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

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back. — Justin Cronin

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

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball. — Sam Rutigliano

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

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College. — Al Gore

[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

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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.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it. — Billy Corgan

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

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. — Philip K. Dick

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

Isn't hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented? — Betty Smith

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

I have always thought that Heaven invented all the problems, and Hell the solutions. — Amin Maalouf

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

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. — Paul Erdos

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 only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. — Paul Volcker

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

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air. — David Blatt

Who invented my life? — Bernard Malamud

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life. — Arthur Hailey