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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
Leo Rosten

Powerful, Words, Among

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Bette Midler

High, Present, Popularity

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Music, Today, Listen

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Erik Satie

Art, Poetry, Perhaps

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
Salman Rushdie

Good, History, Evil

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

God, She, Books

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.
Johnny Vegas

Life, Time, Same

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Erica Jong

Writing, Write, Style

The government invented the Internet.
Jon Meacham

Government, Internet

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Ken MacLeod

Father, Lies, Devil

Technology has to be invented or adopted.
Jared Diamond

Technology, Adopted

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
David Mamet

Good, Found, Whose

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren

Money, May, Made

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Best, Doctors, Feeding

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell

Good, Worst, Taste

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.
Alan Dershowitz

Successful, Thinking, Last

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce

Women, Men, Talk

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
Jeanette Winterson

Past, Language, Create

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

Sea, High, Compass

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Luis Bunuel

Name, Known, Survival

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
Karen Armstrong

Life, Human, Place

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Will Cuppy

Good, Chance, Purpose

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
Loni Anderson

Government, Today, Somebody

Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
Richard Roeper

Humor, Why, Show

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
Donald Knuth

Good, Important, Succeed

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
Joyce Carol Oates

High, Memories, Fiction

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.
Alton Brown

Hard, Find, Rather

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
Ralph Steadman

God, Loved, Silly

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
A. N. Wilson

Society, Same, Whole

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher

Real, Obstacles, Overcome

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