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.

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did the Neville Brothers did and they're there the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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.