Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.
Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a much greater phenomenon. We transcend the barriers of culture. DVDs' image quality and longevity provide us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium. I think they were invented especially for me.
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.
Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.
Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.