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

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
Earl Monroe

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

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

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
Bill Forsyth

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
Andrew Wiles

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
Peter Davison

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

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Bruce Catton

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.
Chris Rock

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Blake Edwards

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
Alan Coren

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

Technology has to be invented or adopted.
Jared Diamond

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Paul Erdos

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
Lascelles Abercrombie

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
Camryn Manheim