Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.
Thomas A. Edison
Quotes to Explore
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
J. D. Vance
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Aaron Copland
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Jack London
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
Ramana Maharshi
In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
Raf Simons
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
Daniel Boulud
I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
Taylor Momsen
On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
Walter Kohn
I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
T. J. Miller