#invented

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. ↗

— Lisa See

#been #china #county #found #invented

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#broadly #epic #epic poetry #independently #invented

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#attempt #best #better #even #find

I have invented the Thermometer style. ↗

— Josef Albers

#invented #style #thermometer

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

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#californians #concept #doom #invented #their

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#destroy #education #invented #russians #something

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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