Charles Edison Quotes

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Charles Edison

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• Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Better
  • See
  • Improvement

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• Imagination rules the world.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Rules

• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

  

  Faith Prince
  • Good
  • You
  • Start

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Mean

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

  

  Beck
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Judgment

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Worry
  • Doing
  • Find

• There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Popular

• In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Age
  • Moving

• And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

  

  John Milton
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Important
  • Notice
  • Precious

• And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

  

  Will Smith
  • Work
  • Guy

• Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Society
  • Progress