Thomas A. Edison Quotes

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

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• I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Art
  • Words

• People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Women
  • You

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Me
  • Say
  • Give

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Play
  • Just
  • Privilege

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Exercise
  • Innovation
  • Most

• Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Gang

• I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Political
  • Human

• I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Books

• It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Piano

• I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • You
  • End

• To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Stupid
  • Lazy

• I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • Hopefully
  • Yesterday

• Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.

  

  Richard Reeves
  • President
  • Crew
  • Incompetent

• Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.

  

  Elizabeth Lowell
  • Understanding
  • Mankind
  • Loving

• They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • President
  • Wilson
  • Blundered