Invented Quotes
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[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.
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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.
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Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
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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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Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.
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Everything that can be invented has already been invented.
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I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
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I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.
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It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
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The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.
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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
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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.
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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.
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If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
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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.
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But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
