Invention Quotes

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

Joel Coen

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Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

Townsend Harris

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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Jared Diamond

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Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

Art Bell

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In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

Paul Watzlawick

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UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

Nigel Farage

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I wish I owned stock in Nicorette. I love Nicorette. Best invention ever.

Justin Theroux

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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Gustav Mahler

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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

George Wald

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My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

Charlie Brooker

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

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Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

Gene Simmons

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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

Yanis Varoufakis

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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Orson Welles

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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

John Gresham Machen

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I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Tom Lenk

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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Jonathan Swift

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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Alison Gopnik

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Invention is the mother of necessity.

Thorstein Veblen

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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Remy de Gourmont

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The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

Kerry James Marshall

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