Invented Quotes
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Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.
Aviva Chomsky -
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
William Kircher
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I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who's calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift.
Ryan Trecartin -
It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
Ethel Barrymore -
I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.
Sarah Brightman -
Everything that can be invented has already been invented.
Charles Holland Duell -
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.
William Faulkner
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If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.
Robert Zemeckis -
There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.
Michael Pryor -
I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.
Mike Newell -
The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.
Reinhard Bonnke -
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
Steven Millhauser
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Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
Neal Ascherson -
In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.
Elena Ferrante -
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
Erno Rubik