Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Successful
  • Reasons
  • Producer

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Nervous

• It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • California

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Experience
  • Player
  • Better

• The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Time
  • Past
  • Better

• Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Person
  • Memories
  • Stories

• I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Children
  • Walking

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Chinese

• You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • World
  • Mind
  • Brain

• I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Kind
  • Kid
  • Shy

• I'm a pretty big news junkie.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Pretty
  • News
  • Big

• Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Friendly
  • Warm
  • Member

• I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Live
  • News
  • Phone

• It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Sweet

• You always learn something from mistakes.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Business
  • Think

• I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

  

  Wilfrid Sheed
  • Talent
  • Middle
  • Admit

• I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Mistakes
  • Patent