A Quote by Jerry Della Femina

I invented myself. — © Jerry Della Femina
I invented myself.
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.
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.
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.
I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.
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?
If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.
The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
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.
Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
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