Invented Quotes

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

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 to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

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 would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.