Invented Quotes

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

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

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

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.