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David Chase invented the Big Pussy rule, which is that no one lives forever. I would've bought something five years ago, but I thought they'd kill me.

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

You think women's liberation and feminism entitles you to be sexual? Sure! Fine! But you still have to get us and make us the center of your universe. I ask you one question. Which gender do you think invented the thong?

'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.

It occurred to me the other day that Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, one of the great fictional embodiments of the rational deductive method - finding evidence, observation and all the rest of it. Conan Doyle himself was, however, a keen spiritualist, especially in later life, when he also fell for these ridiculous hoax photos of fairies at the bottom of the garden.

In terms of screen time, about 50 per cent of the film is reconstruction, based largely on those phone calls. There are some dialogue scenes on the plane, and 90 per cent of these are based on tape evidence and the memories of people who spoke to passengers on the flight. There are a very few occasions where we have invented dialogue and it was based on consultation with people who knew the passengers.

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

If you see something you think is wrong, we want you to tell somebody and forget about being called a snitch because that word was invented by criminals who don't want you to tell, ... You outnumber the bad guys.

Invented for the way you clean, the Yellow Jacket offers the owner of a small home the convenience of a built-in central vacuum system for about $500 installed.

Canada's weird, ... Canada invented 0.7. They really invented this great notion. Canada is the sole country of the G8 enjoying a surplus.

I love playing all kinds of music, ... And the way to learn that music is with the musicians who invented that style. It's hard to write a style--you need to absorb it.

Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.

I photographed all kinds of sports - Formula 1, Formula Atlantic. And anybody who knows me knows that, from the day they invented video cameras, I used to lug them around when you had to carry the pack here and the big camera here, plus the diaper bag and a baby and the purse or whatever.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.

Anybody can go down on any night. That's why you lace them up, and that's why you play. That's why God invented the scoreboard to keep score. So, who knows?

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

THE harp is a musical instrument invented many centuries ago. When properly strung and played upon it yields sweet music, making glad the heart.

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.

It's not like I invented the World Rankings. All I did was play golf.

It's not like rock was invented by people who were trying to show their great muscularity and how perfect and strong they could be.

There's a new plastic innovation that was just invented in Denmark that makes plastic thinner and stronger. So, all of a sudden that's of importance.

It might sound chauvinistic, but I don't think flight could've been invented anywhere else but in the United States of America,

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

The young Steve Jobs had a hard time articulating something that didn't exist. He could see it, taste it, knew what it felt like, but he didn't have all the language because it hadn't been invented yet. People didn't fathom the personal computer on a mass produced level.

It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken on that look know where it's coming from. I'm not saying we invented it -- we drew influence from the Damned and the Misfits -- but it wasn't very popular when we started doing it. It's strange, but if you start worrying about stuff like that, it becomes less about being a songwriter and more about trying to control what's going on in some kind of scene.

It makes sense that the only institution this country has that would honor, and most importantly, archive and preserve, our teachers and the great educational achievements should be in the place that invented what we now know as the American public school system.

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

I don't want to suggest go shorter (because) I invented long. It's become so pretentious in fashion, but it's about educating the style of the people. And people have to educate themselves and express their individuality.

If I see some guy and maybe he's invented something for example, to put on your bread and made millions of dollars from it, I admire him.

The market was striving for newness and someone to bring a new concept and invention. We shook the industry up from the big boys who had had the market to themselves. We got lots of PR, invented products and took a market share.

The Lord is your Staff and Support. Do not discard it; do not be led away from the path of faith by stories invented by malice and circulated by spite.

On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

You are right, ... We didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity