Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

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• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Reason
  • Shock
  • Electrical

• I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Beginning

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Technology
  • iPhone

• There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Everyone

• I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Success
  • View

• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Working
  • Learned

• Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Important
  • Me

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Practice
  • Better
  • See

• If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Power
  • Happy

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Women
  • Love

• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Friends
  • War
  • Win

• The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Earth

• Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Legend

• I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Short