Thomas A. Edison Quotes

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Thomas A. Edison

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• If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

  

  Felix Feneon
  • Never
  • Eternity
  • Studying

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Strong
  • Famous
  • Healing

• My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Childhood
  • Inspiration
  • Poverty

• I feel more comfortable in a place like Brighton - a town, with one centre, one bus station, one train station. And there are so many arty, creative people, and things are less rushed, less stressed.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Creative
  • Train

• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Food

• I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong. and I'm also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that's easier to do on your own terms than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • People
  • Trying
  • Movie

• It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Perfect
  • Design

• Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices.

  

  Joe Taslim
  • People
  • Job
  • Brother

• The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • Up
  • Driving

• It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Song
  • Reality

• Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • Long
  • May
  • Space

• I don't think that 'Hannah' garnered a whole lot of respect from certain people.

  

  Lucas Till
  • People
  • Respect

• Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Good

• Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

  

  Donald Tusk
  • Country
  • Freedom

• The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.'

  

  CJ Adams
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • People
  • Women

• Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

  

  Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr.
  • Up
  • Business
  • Nature

• I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Identity

• Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Service
  • Philosophy
  • Impossible

• Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Brain

• We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Farmers
  • Tenant
  • Chopping down