Quotes of: Invented Keyword

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

Ricky Jay

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

The Accursed

What deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In 'Hat Love').

All The Rooms Of Uncle's Head

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

Ascending

...as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...

Anybody Out There?

The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.

Invented August: An Imperfect Escape to Capri

The wheel is man’s greatest invention, and as such, unicycling is the world’s purest sport.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't know the truth.

Inspiration Per Moment

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

Ion

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

The Illicit Happiness of Other People

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.

In a Sunburned Country

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

life is other, always there, further off, beyond you and beyond me, always on the horizon, life which unlives us and makes us strangers, that invents our face and wears it away

Sunstone

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.

Sky Song

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

The Strain

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Prozac Nation

I don’t need a coffee cup. That’s what hands were invented for. That’s also why I don’t need sex.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I think someone should invent an edible remote control, to go along with TV dinners.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

Uncle Anthony's Unabridged Analogies: Quotes and Proverbs for Lawyers and Lecturers

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Under the Greenwood Tree