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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Him, High

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness, Health, True

He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Marilyn Monroe

Bird, Wants, Hug

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Understand, Study, Until

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates

Change, Time, Fear

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

God, Real, Trying

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.
Steve Jobs

Best, Technology, Touch

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
Steve Jobs

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.
Steve Jobs

Company, Took, Later

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison

Proud, Fact, Weapons

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack Obama

Money, Government, Together

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller

Confusion, Word, Order

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

Work, Necessity, Clock

I invented the cordless extension cord.
Steven Wright

Cord, Extension

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Why, Hell

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel

Life, Granted, Taking

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman

Human, Lion, Inside

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce

Drunk, Getting, Excuse

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Andy Warhol

Movies, America, Show

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley

Woman, High, Heels

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin

Deep, Language, Complain

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Hope, Sex, Wish

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
Chuck Palahniuk

Money, Great, Fight

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa

Lazy, Walking, Bicycle

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great, Lose, Few

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler

Peace, History, Car

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
Mason Cooley

Happy, Person, Poor

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Antonin Artaud

Hell, Except, Written

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter

Human, Real, America

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