Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

I think you invented notes never ever before heard in music on that audition.

You’ve just invented a new form of torture.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I don't know who invented high heels but all women owe him a lot.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

When I started out as a music journalist at the end of the 1980s it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded beatbox disco soared indie rock took off and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

I just invent then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

In the 18th century James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

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.

If a June night could talk it would probably boast it invented romance.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

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.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy for example or the little wheelie guy he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.