Top 874 Thomas Edison Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.

I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

I appreciate Thomas Tuchel. He made his way through the ranks at Mainz from the youth teams.

Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

I own 60 retro jerseys. I've got everybody - the late Derrick Thomas, a lot of people.

I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.

Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.

I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: 'If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?'

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

The girl leaned forward and kissed Thomas on the cheek. “You’re sweet. I really hope we don’t end up killing you, at least.

To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton).

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional and what is not.

Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.

I originally passed on Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

I graduated from college in 2002, and then I went to law school at St. Thomas University in Miami in 2004.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

Too bad we don't have a flashlight." "Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.

I studied Wilfred Owen for my English A Level, and that led me to Sassoon and Blunden, Rosenberg and Thomas.

I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot.

Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore.

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few.