A Quote by Charles Holland Duell

Everything that can be invented has already been invented.

Charles Holland Duell

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Charles Holland Duell
April 13, 1850 - January 29, 1920

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

Noel Fielding

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of civilization started there. And the people who live there damn well know that.

Bruce Cockburn

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

Lewis Carroll

Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer.

Prince Philip

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.

Dick Rutan

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Joshua Foer

If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.

Graham Kendall

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

Janet Evanovich

Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

Charles Baudelaire

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

Rithy Panh

The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.

Cullen Hightower

People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.

Kevin Spacey

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Lorrie Moore

I'm from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y'all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I'm from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.

Cam'ron

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

David Mitchell

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