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.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio the telephone Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.