Thomas A. Edison Quotes

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas A. Edison

• Ourselves
• Literally
• Astound

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• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Lunch

• I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

  

  Mathieu Kerekou
  • Free
  • Strong
  • Community

• The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Drama

• Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Nice

• Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.

  

  David Agus
  • Game
  • Attention
  • Health

• I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

  

  Jim Jarmusch

• Man blindly works the will of fate.

  

  Christoph Martin Wieland
  • Fate

• I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Shopping

• Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Punk

• Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • America
  • Young

• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Women

• No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Good
  • Camera
  • Photograph

• Now social media is a centerpiece of our lives. It can be a useful tool for connection and communication. It can ease the isolation that so many people feel in the modern world. But like anything that is powerful, it can have a bad side. As adults, many of us are able to handle mean words, even lies. Children and teenagers can be fragile. They are hurt when they are made fun of or made to feel less in looks or intelligence. This makes their life hard and can force them to hide and retreat. Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers.

  

  Melania Trump
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Powerful

• There is literally nothing Mr. Carmines will not use - gallops, waltzes, polkas, circus blares and musical bumps and grinds - to get his work done.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Literally
  • Gallops
  • Mr. Carmines

• More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

  

  David Duke
  • World
  • Earth
  • Immigration

• When I got home, I sat on my front porch. I watched the sun set. I felt alone, but not in a bad way. I really liked being alone. Maybe I liked it too much. Maybe my father was like that too. I thought of Dante and wondered about him. And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness. Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Alone
  • Darkness
  • My Father

• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Mistake

• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ourselves
  • Literally
  • Astound