Thomas A. Edison Quotes

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

Thomas A. Edison

• Electricity
• Burn
• Cheap
• Candles

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• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Thought
  • Fight
  • Patience

• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Education
  • Support
  • Language

• I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • New York
  • Anxious

• On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Walk

• One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Real
  • Need
  • Face

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Person
  • Yourself
  • Sacred

• We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Time
  • May
  • Strong

• Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Fly
  • Risks

• The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

  

  Rain
  • Myself
  • Competition
  • Planning

• I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Happy
  • Generation
  • Films

• My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Long
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Fall
  • Heaven
  • Gifts

• I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

  

  David M. Kelley
  • Engineering

• It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Memory

• You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

  

  Nils-Axel Morner
  • Research
  • Silent
  • Grants

• There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • People
  • Murder
  • Fortunately

• By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

  

  George Michael
  • Move
  • Adolescence
  • Area

• We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Electricity
  • Burn
  • Cheap