Invented Quotes

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

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

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

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

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

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.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

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