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

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.
John Milius

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
Brendan Fraser

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
Jane Rule

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.
Henry Chadwick

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.
Daryl Hannah

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
Angela Carter

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
Victor Borge

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
Lord Mountbatten

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
Alva Myrdal

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Thelma Ritter

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
John Ray

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
Gustave Flaubert

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Andrew Young

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.
Thomas Perry