Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Idea
  • Fact
  • Florida

• The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Disney

• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Idea
  • Unity
  • Rendering

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Idea

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Resilience

• I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Idea
  • Wrong
  • Conversation

• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Normal

• It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Idea
  • Getting
  • Clean

• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Christian
  • Idea
  • Go

• Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Idea

• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Suicide

• My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Feeling

• There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Single
  • Idea

• I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Excited

• Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.

  

  Hank Green
  • Idea
  • Odds

• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Person
  • Influence

• Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Money
  • Why

• I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Doing
  • Creative
  • Pressure

• I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Great
  • Day
  • Film

• To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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