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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
Trip-hop? That's never existed and they say I invented it. Trip-hop is just hip-hop with a girl singing on top.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Cafu was a leader on and off the pitch and it was he who invented the concept of right-backs running from corner to corner.
If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.
Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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 Nations.
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 poetry.
The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
I'm not a method actor. The techniques that I follow have been created and practiced in my own journey, ones that I have researched, formed and invented.
So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.
Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.
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 be naked on earth.