Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
-
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
-
They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
-
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
-
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
-
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
-
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
-
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
-
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
-
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
-
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
-
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
-
I don't know the right way to retire.
-
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
-
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
-
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
-
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
-
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
-
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
-
I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.
-
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.
-
A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
-
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
-
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
