Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.
Thomas A. Edison
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
Yves Saint Laurent
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
Daniel Baldwin
Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
Haley Barbour
I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
Iris Apfel
I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
Yoko Ono
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?
Jasmine Guinness
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
Jane Fonda
I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.
Tommy Lee Jones
Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.
Dalia Grybauskaite
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.
Thomas A. Edison
