It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do how to do it when to do it how to feel about it and how to look how you feel about it.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

In the name of Hypocrites doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.

God invented concubinage satan marriage.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Man has made use of his intelligence he invented stupidity.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life problems and terrors.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books I'm consistently impressed with their wit humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular the most practical the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression modesty sex appeal simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in of course and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house that was done many thousands of years ago.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

If you take a look at history you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards in order to express this idea.

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I think in a way I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

If somebody invented cigarettes today the government would not legalize them.

The government invented the Internet.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is is that when we succeed we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style He just goes on trying other things.

A mere forty years ago beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it and that's what freedom is all about.