Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Thomas A. Edison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

Joel Salatin

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If there was ever someone to look up to, it's Tom Hanks.

John Krasinski

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I remember when I first got my cello when I was 8 years old. I remember the room it was in and what the lacquer smelled like. Instruments have just been something very special to me.

Michael Bacon

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I didn't think I would be 14, or 13 at the time, and be a lead in a role, but I think everything happens for a reason.

Storm Reid

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When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

Simon Callow

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We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

Michael Leunig

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I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Moby

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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

Dinah Sheridan

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My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.

Donald Driver

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When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

David Spade

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All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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