Invented Quotes
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Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in 'The Outlaw'. And he never knew. He wasn't going to take my clothes off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did.
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams.
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The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.
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I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.
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We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Friends and I used to play an invented parlor game called the Worst Records Never Made. The point was to hypothesize the most stunningly inappropriate albums we could imagine—pairings of artists and material so horrific that even the famously dunderheaded major labels would hardly consider making them. Most of our inspirations have been lost to memory, but the notion of discs like “Yodel with the Berlin Philharmonic,” “The Three Tenors Sing Gilbert and Sullivan,” and—my favorite—“The Chipmunks Present Your Favorite Spirituals” can still inspire what P. G. Wodehouse used to call “the raised eyebrow.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.
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You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.
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Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.
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Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
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It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.
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The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.
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I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all.
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I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.
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At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
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I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.
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There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.
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“I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.”
