Thomas A. Edison Quotes

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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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Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what people think of us, and it sucks, because you try not to take it personally, and people are monsters and idiots.

Joe Mande

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There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

Joe Montana

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I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Andy Garcia

StoryWishI WishTell

I think if you're not confident, you're not in the right place.

Andrew Benintendi

ThinkConfidentYouPlaceRight

I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.

John Rhys-Davies

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Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Stephen Colbert

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Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Mary Ann Mobley

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I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Juan Enriquez

ControlThinkEvolutionOverGoing

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Juan Williams

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There's an actor in the TV show 'Prison Break,' Robert Knepper, who plays a violent sociopath, and he's just incredible in that role.

Joseph Morgan

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In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.

Dominique Moceanu

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I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

Bob Monkhouse

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