Thomas A. Edison Quotes

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas A. Edison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

John Niven

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I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

Jeff Bridges

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Honestly achieved results surpass all others.

Michael Diamond

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Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Amity Shlaes

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I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

Stephen Hough

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My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn't go out of style. If someone decides that clothes can go out of fashion, then you are deciding a woman can go out of fashion.

Sonia Rykiel

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Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.

Michael Morpurgo

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I wished for just one medal as a junior.

Mo Farah

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Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

Judith Butler

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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Denis Waitley

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I don't consider myself any denomination.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Arundhati Roy

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