They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
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.
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.
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
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.
At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.
But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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.
I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
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.
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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.
I invented myself.
I have invented the Thermometer style.
Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
