Quotes of: Invented Keyword

NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.

Love

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

Woody Norris

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

Nick Park

I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

Yael Stone

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

Lynn Nottage

How thin the air felt at the forest's edge, how ghostly the trees that guarded their realm.... The whole world seemed as delicate as a dandelion seed, and as fleeting.... How sad to know that the figment village of my imagination would not vanish whe...

Keturah and Lord Death

Picture this broad: 22 going on 18. Half the guys in my class would have given their left testicle to date her. This cupcake is the guidance counselor the principal has assigned me. Miss Boyle is her name. We all call her “Miss Bubbly Water.” Ima...

The Man Who Invented New Jersey: Collected Stories

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miser...

Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized furt...

Lev Grossman

Jules: [talking about Mia, Marsellus Wallace's wife] I think her biggest deal was she starred in a pilot. Vincent: Pilot? What's a pilot? Jules: Well, you know the shows on TV? Vincent: I don't watch TV. Jules: Yeah, but, you are aware that there's a...

Pulp Fiction

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Crome Yellow

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

The Dream Master

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Death on the Nile

Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.

Desperation

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.

Every Fifteen Minutes

(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.

Encounter

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

Enemies on Tap

Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?

Goddess of the Hunt

I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.

Chris Carter

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