Famous quotes containing the word invented:
“I invented the colors of the vowels!A black, E white, I red, O blue, U greenI made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (18541891)
“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; thats the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)
“Warren G. Harding invented the word normalcy,
And the lesser-known bloviate, meaning, one imagines,
To spout, to spew aimless verbiage.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)