Thomas Alva Quotes

#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. I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

Whitney Cummings

#3. and SAT-level words, both clever and harsh.

Rina Gray

#4. I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

Peggy Lipton

#5. Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

Simon Mawer

#6. I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.

Rene Redzepi

#7. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

Thomas Malthus

#8. No, I can't stop for sonnets; my mother is sitting up. I'll look you up tomorrow, sometime or other, and do for goodness' sake try and realise that you're a pestilential scourge, or your find yourself in a most awful fix. Good-night!

Kenneth Grahame

#9. I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

Jack Bowman

#10. People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

Thomas Sowell

#11. She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.

Muriel Spark