Edison Quotes - page 2

The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of the subconscious, this correlation between darkness and our subconscious, these two forms of darkness, was obvious to people. It wasn't a metaphor, even. If you trace it back further, it wasn't even a correlation. Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked. Like this. (Haruki Murakami)
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as 'candle making industry threatened.' View quote
Newt Gingrich
I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. View quote
David Lynch
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology. View quote
Kage Baker
What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb. View quote
Glenn Beck
They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. View quote
Dhani Harrison
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison.... Edisons first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. View quote
Dave Barry
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. View quote
Allan Sherman
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller though I wouldn't mind being Rockefeller either. But referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right. I'm not the fourth smartest man in America. Wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence. View quote
Larry Ellison
Once, when asked to give his definition of genius, Edison replied: "Two per cent. is genius, and 98 per cent. is hard work." At another time, when the argument that genius was inspiration was brought before him, he said: "Bah! Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration" (Thomas Edison)