Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison

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• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Trying
  • Days
  • Ironic

• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• My parents are high school sweethearts.

  

  Becky G
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I'm a hot mess when it comes to any physical activity. My body just pours sweat. Not a lot of people know, but I always have my trusty inhaler with me. When I start to have even a little bit of an asthma attack, I just start dripping sweat. It's my body's emergency system.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Body
  • Activity

• 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

• If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

  

  Adam Green
  • May
  • Football
  • Idea

• I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Gatherings

• 'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food

• I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • School
  • Fear

• I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Home
  • Risk
  • Financial

• Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Women

• I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Silly

• For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Country
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Writing

• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  

  William James

• Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Country

• My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'

  

  Brad Thor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Book

• We came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to do.

  

  Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  • God
  • Wish
  • Serve

• She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Life
  • Against
  • Meaninglessness

• Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Accomplishment
  • Serve
  • Surprises