#invent

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#butler #concerned #everyone #far #i

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice. ↗

— Mike Watt

#find #finding #inner #inner voice #like

If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#funny #hobbits #humor #invention-of-golf #funny

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#fairy #her #invention #lots #many

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#create #family #grew #how #i

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#about #ever #expensive #finding #happened

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#demands #explain #function #government #invent

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 #i #i am #important #important thing

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. ↗

— Scott Turow

#inventor #legal #me #people #talk

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#arguing #dancing #drinking #holding #inventing