Top 874 Thomas Edison Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

I think that Thomas Tuchel has the quality to train a Bayern.

Thomas Muller is an excellent player.

I call him Alshon. He calls me Demaryius Thomas.

If you have not yet seen ‘Sue Thomas; F.B.Eye’... you are in for an unbelievable treat.

[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you say 'yes, that's Sweets' and you automatically smile. This is really unique. He changed the way how to play this instrument.

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

I think Isaiah Thomas has been a really nice player for the Kings.

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy.

I got my first job at a firm called Naess & Thomas.

My son goes around shooting the basketball saying, 'Isaiah Thomas!'

Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.

Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

Thomas Jefferson survives.

Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so.

It was the middle of winter, Con Edison had shut off my power, and I didn't have an agent. I made this VHS tape of some monologues, but I didn't even have the money for a MetroCard. So I walked the tapes 'round to the different agencies in town.

Hunger. It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought.

I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.

My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands.

I went on vacation with my nephews to St. Thomas and we had a ball.

The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.

One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.

The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music.

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

Land!” shouted Thomas. “Is there food?” asked Tubby Ted.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

Donnie Thomas is simply a superlative linebacker with everything it takes to be an all-American.

Pastor Kerney Thomas to these hoes.. miwacles.

I'm very close with Brian Davis, Thomas Hill, and Marty Clark.

When I was, like, 8/9, I was obsessed with Jonathon Taylor Thomas and the band Hanson.

Bernardo Silva is a key player, like Thomas Lemar.

I am Thomas Muller, and I want to be like me.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!" . . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him as tightly as possible, as if that could somehow bring him back, or show thanks for saving his life, for being his friend when no one else would. Thomas cried, wept like he'd never wept before. His great, racking sobs echoed through the chamber like the sounds of tortured pain. (pg 358 hardback)

I have the utmost respect for Thomas Almeida.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.