Quotes of: Invented Keyword

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Edward Everett Hale

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

Julie Christie

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

Antoni Gaudi

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.

Billy Connolly

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

Umberto Eco

S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

Voltaire

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...

Wallace Stegner

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

Francis Ford Coppola

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

Walter Dean Myers

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

Crush

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

David Hanson

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Iain McGilchrist

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

November

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Henry Miller

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Plato

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Steve Jobs

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Stendhal

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

Thomas Huxley

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

Thomas Piketty

You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.

Louis Khan