Invented Quotes

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 have invented the Thermometer style.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

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.