Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

Thomas A. Edison

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• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Men
  • Changes

• I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Ambition

• Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Past

• Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Walking

• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Change

• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Two
  • Snow
  • London

• For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Business
  • Future

• I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • My Life
  • Financially

• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Bad
  • Support
  • Acting

• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Matter
  • View

• Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Presentation

• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • You
  • Run

• Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Children
  • Old
  • Cats

• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Wine

• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fabulous
  • Dots

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Existence

• For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Desire
  • Existence
  • Love Is

• I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fame

• With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Respect
  • Wings
  • Butterfly

• I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Existence
  • Intelligence
  • Supreme