Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931

Topics

FailureManMeYouWillSatisfied

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

Robert Ludlum

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Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

Jeff Ament

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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Jean Houston

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When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

Troy Polamalu

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I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

Roger Rees

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The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating.

Ry Cooder

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My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

Rufus Wainwright

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The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

Mike Gallagher

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All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

Michelle Paver

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I would say the youth systems in Germany have impressed me the most and how they grow their youth players into full professionals.

Christian Pulisic

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I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

Cory Booker

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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

Anne Lamott

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