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Inventive Quotes (page 5)

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci
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
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. Joyce Carol Oates
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. Evelyn Waugh
I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana. Christian Louboutin
Jimmy Carter quote: "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense..."
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Jimmy Carter
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves. Philip Levine
Sid Caesar quote: "The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who..."
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. Sid Caesar
Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. Lisa See
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie? Melissa Rosenberg
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention. Dean Kamen
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. Lynn Johnston
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
Dan Quayle quote: "If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. Dan Quayle
Eddie Izzard quote: "There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us..."
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? Eddie Izzard

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