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

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Well I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought you know this group is really reinventing the circus as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.

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.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing singing drinking dancing making love holding the streets picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

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

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class and everyone from it I've met and think they're incredibly witty inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

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.

All one's inventions are true you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

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.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

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.

I write the vocals last because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.