Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

Thomas A. Edison

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• We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunity

• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Thee

• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Boots

• Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Smart
  • Data
  • Cloud

• My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Myself

• One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Real
  • You
  • Jazz

• The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Future
  • You
  • Employer

• Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Dark
  • Red
  • Sweet

• I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Feel

• The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Moral
  • Story
  • Temporary

• People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Remember
  • Tree

• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

  

  Os Guinness
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Seed

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Parents
  • Like

• The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Financial
  • Economics

• I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Good
  • Money
  • Me

• I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Love
  • Home

• What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Compassion
  • Kingdom
  • Divisions

• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Never
  • Look

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Nature

• I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Never
  • Improve
  • Pickup