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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. Lech Walesa

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

Rhys Ifans

I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.

Mike Newell

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

Yahoo Serious

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

Eliot Sumner

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.

John Burroughs

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Lech Walesa

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

Accursed be he that first invented war.

Christopher Marlowe

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Pablo Picasso

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

Henri Poincare

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

Rob Sheffield

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

David Lloyd George

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

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Jared Diamond

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

Harrison Birtwistle

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

Paul Rand

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

Don DeLillo

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.

Douglas Coupland

If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

Adam Draper

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

Heinrich Heine

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Thelma Ritter

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Anna Quindlen

When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.

Neil Peart

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

John Jay Hooker

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

Richard Dawkins

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Marilyn Monroe

Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.

Mary Roach

I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.

Denis Leary

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'

Franklin Foer

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

Jimmy Carter

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Tony Parsons