A Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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Also Aversion Couples Divorce Euphoria Fact Failure Importantly In Fact Infidelity Intimacy Invented Love Marriage Mess Mind Misery Most Privacy Romantic Sloppy Too Well Whole

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Elizabeth Gilbert
American - Writer
Born: July 18, 1969

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

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

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

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

Douglas Hofstadter

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

Kevin Spacey

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

Mary Quant

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

I don't like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don't believe in God, or at least not in the one we've invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they've invented in America who supply their servants with toupees, television stations and, most importantly, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world.

Douglas Adams

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Dan Quayle

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

David Mitchell

I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

Barry Humphries

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

Graham Kendall

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