Top 100 Invented Quotes
#1. Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
Coleman Dowell
#2. I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.
Arturo Sandoval
#3. No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
Wallace Stegner
#4. Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Call the priest. You're in a better mood when he's around. He doesn't brood like you do." "He invented brooding. He holds the patent on brooding. He gets royalties whenever anyone broods. You just haven't seen him do it yet.
Tiffany Reisz
#6. Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
Ogden Nash
#7. 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
#8. Big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.
Orhan Pamuk
#9. I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when people come together and really listen to each other, doing the hard work of human kindness, virtually every barrier is breached.
Jen Hatmaker
#10. He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.
Christopher Moore
#11. Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
Yukio Mishima
#12. Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.
Janet Evanovich
#13. I invented chemistry with you. Everything else is just pretend.
Leisa Rayven
#14. Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.
Bill Buford
#15. If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
Tom Stoppard
#16. (God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
Milan Kundera
#17. It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.
John G. Stumpf
#18. Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.
Connie Willis
#19. Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.
Leo Rosten
#20. I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#21. Like so many things in software, MVC was invented by Smalltalkers in the seventies. Lispers probably claim they came up with it in the sixties but didn't bother writing it down.
Robert Nystrom
#22. It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm.
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#23. Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"
Laurie Anderson
#24. I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.
Pushpa Rana
#25. Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.
Maurice Bowra
#26. When the evidence for and against "democracy being the finest system of government yet invented" is weighed, George W Bush is going to tip the scales very heavily against.
Andre The BFG
#27. You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.
David James Duncan
#28. Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#29. If I told you that everything about you had been just made up by someone, that all of your thoughts, all of your memories, even the things you chose to say had been invented and that they weren't real, that you weren't real, would you believe me? I don't think so.
Tony Burgess
#30. Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.
Tom Hodgkinson
#31. At the Foxhole Court "family" was a fantasy invented to make books and Hollywood movies more interesting.
Nora Sakavic
#32. Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
Andrea Jung
#35. Yes, there was a trick to it. You inherited your life, or you invented it. You figured out what you wanted life to be and then somehow or other you made it that way. Then, miracle of miracles, you liked it!
Laurie Colwin
#36. Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher
#37. Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.
Jim Cooper
#38. My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
Temple Grandin
#39. Ted Bundy," I said. "He killed thirty or so people around the country in the seventies - he's the one they invented the term 'serial killer' for.
Dan Wells
#40. When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time
the interactive video game.
Jay Moore
#41. God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
Salvador Dali
#42. Do you know what Hell is? ... No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.
Thomm Quackenbush
#43. We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
P. J. O'Rourke
#45. Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.
Charlton Laird
#46. Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
Marina Abramovic
#47. Sugar producers wanted to develop new markets and needs you didn't already have," Ms. Abbot says. "And so they invented the idea that every meal had to be followed by something sweet,
Anonymous
#48. In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.
David Gerrold
#49. What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
Douglas Coupland
#50. I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Isabel Allende
#51. Russia had always been an anomaly. Here they were, in the center of the city that had burned down around Napoleon's army, having "traditional" Russian cuisine that had been invented by the French.
Kenneth Eade
#52. Ironically, I am reliably informed that Michael McIntyre doesn't actually have a "man drawer", and invented the concept in order to ridicule ordinary people, for whom he has nothing but haughty contempt.
Stewart Lee
#53. I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
John Perry Barlow
#54. I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.
Brian Eno
#55. Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
Thomas A. Edison
#56. She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.
James S.A. Corey
#57. Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Maya Angelou
#58. She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.
Hannah Kent
#59. Cowardice and courage are just labels - words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That
Joseph Delaney
#60. Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#61. Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
Douglas William Jerrold
#62. 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 on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
Khaled Hosseini
#63. Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.
Dolph Schayes
#64. Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
P. J. O'Rourke
#65. An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
Arthur W. Pink
#66. Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
Miguel De Cervantes
#67. Patience, thought Milligan, that word was invented by dull buggers who couldn't think quick enough.
Spike Milligan
#68. Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.
Paulo Coelho
#69. The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.
Dana Gould
#70. Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued;
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#71. Shanta shook her head emphatically, "That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented. Not the memory of a form of words addressed to somebody in your imagination.
Aldous Huxley
#72. In addition, human beings have, in the most recent few tenths of a percent of our existence, invented not only extra-genetic but also extrasomatic knowledge: information stored outside our bodies, of which writing is the most notable example.
Carl Sagan
#73. 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
#74. He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#75. I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.
Dale Peck
#76. There are just three things that you can do with Money:
save, give, or invest. Somehow in here in America, with all our creativity, we have invented a fourth use for money:
we can squander it
Celso Cukierkorn
#77. Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.
Gore Vidal
#78. Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
Joni Mitchell
#79. No, it's not invented! What would be the point of 'inventing' Nazism?
Laurent Binet
#80. I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#81. I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
Sarah Dessen
#82. Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.
Caitlin Moran
#83. I've always thought that each person invented himself ... that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
David Geffen
#84. It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
Mel Brooks
#85. Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Maya did, among others. Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish.
Seth Shostak
#86. We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
M.H. Abrams
#87. Iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?
David Levithan
#88. I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?
Ryan Lilly
#89. If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital.
Vaughan Oliver
#90. The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations ... PEOPLE invented limitations!
Jennifer O'Neill
#91. Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there's nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can't see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. (E)ach generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup
if any.
Robert A. Heinlein
#93. Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.
James Clerk Maxwell
#94. Chutes and Ladders was perhaps the most sadistic board game ever invented. Adults loathed the game; children loved it. The universe thus dictated that an adult invariably got snookered into playing the game with a child.
David Foster Wallace
#95. Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on
Jamy Ian Swiss
#97. My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
Victor Borge
#98. I think we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community.
Newt Gingrich
#99. There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace
Frederick Lenz
#100. Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!
Jacques Lipchitz
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