Invented Quotes

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

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.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

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.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

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 character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.