A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
Federico Fellini

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
Newt Gingrich

Accursed be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe

Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe

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

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
Terence McKenna

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
Auberon Waugh

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin

Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
Andrea Jung

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

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Wilson

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
Erno Rubik

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Arne Jacobsen

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
Dabney Coleman

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.
Claudia Cardinale

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
Janet Flanner

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Don DeLillo

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.
Sparky Anderson

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
G. B. Trudeau