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We should have more invention. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Truth exists; only lies are invented. -- Georges Braque
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. -- David Lloyd George
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. -- Dan Quayle
Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. -- Loren Cunningham
Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty. -- Elizabeth Jane Howard
School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man. -- Chris Rock
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves. -- Mary Quant
I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds. -- Sandra Bullock
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. -- Ogden Nash
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. -- Robert A. Heinlein
We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things. -- Amy Klobuchar
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. -- Christopher Morley
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. -- Diane Lane
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities. -- Calvin Trillin
Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted. -- Kevin Kline
Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match. -- Clint Eastwood
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. -- Diodorus Siculus
The heaviest blow which ever struck humanity was Christianity; Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. -- Adolf Hitler
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. -- Joyce Carol Oates
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves. -- Reginald Fessenden
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. -- Honore de Balzac
We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe. -- Stephen Richards
Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true. -- Mario Balotelli
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. -- Eric Schmidt
..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom." -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. -- Garry Trudeau
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. -- Gaston Bachelard
It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking. -- Laura Fraser
People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas. -- Christophe de Margerie
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. -- Joshua Foer
I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. -- Christiaan Barnard
One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting. -- Brittany Murphy
Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time. -- Dave Barry
In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.' -- Eugene Mirman
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. -- Bill Gates
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind? -- J. C. Ryle
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is? -- J. C. Ryle
I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition. -- Natascha McElhone
Time, fertile in resources, more inventive and more charitable than we think, possesses a remarkable capacity to help us out, to afford us at any hour of the day some new humiliation. -- Emil Cioran
We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once. -- David Parnas
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. -- David Lynch
When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this. -- Chris Robinson
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. -- Tom Hiddleston
I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming. -- Martin Luther
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks. -- Daniel Kahneman
Everything becomes a story and ends up drifting about in the same sphere, and then it's hard to differentiate between what really happened and what is pure invention. Everything becomes a narrative and sounds fictitious even if it's true. -- Javier Marías
I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love. -- Mira Nair
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense. -- Elihu Burritt
Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound. -- Lorrie Moore
I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions. -- Fred Rogers
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but rather are practiced to beget most foolish questions, are to be deprived of the communion of the Church. -- Pope Innocent I
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented. -- Richard Roeper
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. -- Andy Warhol
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."Andy Warhol -- Andy Warhol
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism ...in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'. -- Hamid Dabashi
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. -- Angela Carter
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. -- Walter Russell Mead
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. -- Walter Russell Mead
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse. -- Chuck Hagel
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns. -- Stephen Sondheim
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach. -- Horace Mann
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again. -- Burt Rutan
There is no re-inventing the wheel. -- Sean Penn
I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' -- Jeff Bezos
I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it. -- Sarah Brightman
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. -- David Bowie
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue. -- Malaika Arora Khan
Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves. -- T-Pain
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. -- Steven Spielberg
In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. -- John Barth
Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions. -- Martin Gore
Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers. -- Sid Meier
Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have. -- Irvine Welsh
It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions. -- Jodelle Ferland
I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out. -- Nelly
You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience. -- John C. Reilly
There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of 'Defiance.' Formerly, it was St. Louis. This frontier town springs up from it. And everybody tries to integrate, they try to re-invent themselves as well. -- Tony Curran
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? -- Chuck Palahniuk
When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions. -- Adam Green
I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. -- Steven Spielberg
Hip-hop didn't invent anything"¦ hip-hop re-invented everything. -- Grandmaster Caz
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch. -- Vinod Khosla
If you're not satisfied with your life, it's time to invent a new one. -- Mary Wells Lawrence
American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent. -- Robert Englund
We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else. -- Michael E. Mann
I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff. -- Morgan Freeman
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. -- Steve Lacy
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it. -- Eyvind Kang
If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.' -- Peter Bogdanovich
The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously. -- Kerry Packer
If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood. -- Seth Godin
Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue. -- Ashley Bryan
And tell your wife whatever you want, but don't make promises you're not going to keep. And don't knock yourself out over it; you didn't invent infidelity. -- Marc Fitten
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. -- Jeff Bezos
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. -- Jeff Bezos
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist. -- John Barth
People like to re-invent you, according to clichÃ©. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash. -- Gore Vidal
We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition, -- Hugo Chavez
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