Quotes About Thomas Alva Edison

#1. When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#2. It turns out you have to be an apprentice in this world.

Cheryl Strayed

#3. My job is to cry cock-a-doodle-doo - and after that, I do not give a shit.

Anthony O'Neill

#4. The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Stephen Ambrose

#5. He had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made a man, but kept a child. When

Henry David Thoreau

#6. The old-boobs Pamela or the new-boobs Pamela?

Michele Bardsley

#7. A thing of beauty, like an approaching storm. It was hard not to respect, even though you knew it was likely to erupt any moment.

J.L. Langley

#8. Economic and political factors play themselves out through human agency; and human beings are fundamentally shaped by their cultures.

Francis George

#9. War, for all its evil, is at any rate an unanswerable test of strength, like a try-your-grip machine. Great strength returns the penny, and there is no way of faking the result.

George Orwell

#10. When there's fear people act out in desperate ways.

Robert Hood

#11. Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.

Yoko Ogawa

#12. The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

Ben Lerner

#13. If I weren't a writer, I think I might have thrown myself more enthusiastically into advertising. But, it's difficult to imagine being a diligent copywriter. It would be quite exasperating for me.

Philip Kerr

#14. I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business.

Darren Shan

#15. Sometimes, for the soul to thrive, the heart needs to be broken, son.

Elif Shafak

#16. Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.

Sarah Rees Brennan