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Quotes About Invention

High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
~ Roald Dahl
We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
~ Roald Dahl
I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
~ Roald Dahl
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
~ Roald Dahl
mouse-trrraps
~ Roald Dahl
That's why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They're for new countries. You're meant to fill them in yourself.
~ Roald Dahl
Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker!
~ Roald Dahl
I have therefore prepared personally vith my own hands a limited qvantity of Delayed Action Mouse-Maker vhich I vill distrrribute to the ancient vuns before you leave the hotel.
~ Roald Dahl
Mike Teavee asked. "Why not use Oompa-Loompas?" "Because," said Mr. Wonka, "Oompa-Loompas can't get walnuts out
~ Roald Dahl
crockadowndillies.
~ Roald Dahl
Human bipolarity was both the binding force and the driving energy for all human behavior, from sonnets to nuclear equations. If any being thinks that human psychologists exaggerate on this point, let it search Terran patent offices, libraries, and art galleries for creations of eunuchs.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I see. Well—got everything you want?" "Yes," admitted Monroe-Alpha, "unless you should happen to have concealed, somewhere about your person, a hypersphere, a hypersurface, and some four-dimensional liquid, suitable for fine lubrication.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
God invented people to amuse Him because He didn't have television
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I tell you, the slide rule is the greatest invention since girls.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Malraux invented the term and concept of the "museum without walls," which sees modern art as developing, not from previous Western traditions alone, but from African, Hindu, Chinese and various other Third World traditions also. I consider him the godfather of multi-culturalism.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Then I began to discover something about synchronicity and the imagination. Some of the most absurd things that we invented turned out to be true, and that really blew my mind.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
And, since this was before the invention of Christianity, these erotic eucharists were more often identified with religion than with sin.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
gadgets on the sides and a big silver whatchamacallit on the end. I sit in the center of this whoozis, like I say, and out there in the other room they are turning switches and pressing buttons and pulling levers and twirling dials and then they press a lot of do-funnys. The whole apparatus is sort of like one of those you-knows. Only with a lot more mechanisms. See?
~ Robert Bloch
It's what we call a fanciful life construction. Also known as baloney.
~ Robert Crais
If you only make it up, you never have to live it down.
~ Robert Fulghum
Vicdan ancak dans hocas? Shakespeare taraf?ndan icat edilmi?ti
~ Knut Hamsun
This began to get interesting. The situation ran away with me, and one lie after another engendered in my head. I sat down again, forgot the newspaper, and the remarkable documents, grew lively, and cut short the old fellow's talk. The little goblin's unsuspecting simplicity made me foolhardy; I would stuff him recklessly full of lies; rout him out o' field grandly, and stop his mouth from sheer amazement. Had he heard of the electric psalm-book that Happolati had invented?
~ Knut Hamsun
Until someone invented a fang condom, she'd continue stealing from the blood bank.
~ Kresley Cole