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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
willem de kooning— 1980 In Bulletin, Pittsburgh International Museum.
Mon fre' re, en une nuit, avait invente le cine matographe. My brother, in one night, had invented the cinema.
— Of the night his brother Louis had a flash of inspiration which resulted in the'Kinetoscope de projection'patented in1895. Quoted in C W Ceram Archaeology of the Cinema (1965).
Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe— 1587 Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.1, act 2, sc.4.
Bolaño's narrative style is fragmented and loaded. It is also full of a strange kind of gallows humour, as we are swept along by stories that are invented and presented entirely convincingly, only to be suddenly brought up short by a reminder that this has not been done innocently.
roberto bolaño— Nick Caistor in The Guardian
I have closely studied the figured documents of all ages and of all the great masters, but I have never seen in them any representations of human beings walking on the extremity of the toes or raising the leg higher than the head. These ugly and false positions in no way express that state of unconscious Dionysiac delirium which is necessary to the dancer. Moreover movèments, just like harmonies in music, are not invented; they are discovered.
isadora duncan— As quoted in Modern Dancing and Dancers (1912) by John Ernest Crawford Flitch, p. 106
By the way, the = notation was invented by Robert Recorde (1510-1558). He choose two parallel lines as a symbol of equality " because noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle."
brian hayes— Chapter 11, Identity Crisis, p. 203
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen — the census taker — and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million."
o. henry— Preface
...Far beyond the confines of a novel; at a single stroke he invented and perfected a new form. No man could write the gigantic story that lies behind 'Company K,' but William March, by a brilliant refinement of form, has given us its essence and its broad sweep, flashes of its intensity and rich variety.
william march— Harold Strauss, from the 1933 Review of Company K for the New York Times.
The language organ evolved on Tuesday; language was invented on Wednesday; and everyone else in the world was eliminated on Thursday.
mark rosenfelder— Mocking the w:Proto-World language hypothesis in an essay
The invariable sign of doctrines invented by men is confusion, contradiction, absurdity, and obscenity Idleness, theft, and viciousness dishonor your mother who in pain bore you.
mark rosenfelder— Some of the original tenets in Jippirasti, another Almean religion
He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.
thomas carlyle— Bk. I, ch. 5.
We have been housekeeping a fortnight, now long enough to have learned how to pronounce the servants' names, but not how to spell them. We shan't ever learn to spell them; they were invented in Hungary and Poland, and on paper they look like the alphabet out on a drunk.
mark twain— p. 121. (Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010))
How ironic. In order to avoid the "nutty" theory of inversion, Gaskell invented the even odder notion of stomachs turning into brains with new guts forming below. No wonder then, that later biologists cast a plague on both speculative houses and opted instead for the obvious alternative: arthropods and vertebrates do not share the same anatomical plan at all, but rather represent two separate evolutionary developments of similar complexity from a much simpler common ancestor that grew neither a discrete gut nor a central nerve cord.
stephen jay gould— "Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 327
Plato and his objectivistic successors … preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.
max horkheimer— p. 53 (Eclipse of Reason (1947))
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.
Margaret Mead— p.198 (People and Places, 1959)
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
henry miller— Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
duke of edinburgh philip— About to disembark on state visit to Brazil (November 1968) as quoted in The Reality of Monarchy (1970) by Andrew Duncan
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.
peter porter— "Japanese Jokes", p. 62.
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
john updike— Ch. 6 (Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989))
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
jack vance— Chapter 10 (p. 111)
Plato and his objectivistic successors … preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.
max horkheimer— Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (1947), p. 53
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
marilyn monroe— American actress and model (1926 - 1962)
If a 19th century capitalist Machiavelli had wished to cripple the socialist intelligentsia of the 20th century, he could have invented no more cogent weapon than the labour theory of value. Yet this theory was the invention, not of a defender of capitalism, but of its greatest critic: Karl Marx.
— Chapter 13, Nothing To Lose But Their Minds, p. 270–271 (See also: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter VI, p. 58)
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of "agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the "gnostic" of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant. To my great satisfaction the term took.
— Thomas Huxley, in ''Christianity and Agnosticism: A Controversy (1889)
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
— Quoted in Lemon, et al., Mark (1899). "Punch's Almanack for 1899". Punch (magazine) 116 (17). (See also, Ecclesiastes 1:9 "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.") Anecdotally misattributed to Charles H. Duell, Commisioner, US Patent Office, 1899, see "A Patently False Patent Myth by Samuel Sass in Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 13 (Spring 1989), pg. 310-313.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
bertrand russell— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 1: The Value of Scepticism.
DHCP was invented by a rabid gerbil on speed.
— Kees J. Bot Minix DHCPD manpage
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory ! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
— Audrey Hepburn, in A Year in High Heels, p.145
I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out of jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
Diane von Furstenberg
The NIH syndrome (Not invented Here) is a disease.
linus torvalds— Shankland, Stephen (2004-12-21). "Newsmaker: Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic". CNet. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
