Quotes

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.” Thomas Alva Edison

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” Thomas Alva Edison

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.” Thomas Alva Edison

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” Thomas Alva Edison

“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.” Thomas Alva Edison

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas Alva Edison

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin

“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.” Charlie Chaplin

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” Charlie Chaplin

“If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.” Charlie Chaplin

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.” Charlie Chaplin

“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” Thomas Alva Edison

“ All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.” Charlie Chaplin

“Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.” Charlie Chaplin

“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.” Charlie Chaplin

“Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.” Charlie Chaplin

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” Charlie Chaplin

“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” Charlie Chaplin

“I am for people. I can't help it.” Charlie Chaplin

“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.” Charlie Chaplin

“I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.” Charlie Chaplin

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.” Charlie Chaplin

“I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.” Charlie Chaplin

“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.” Charlie Chaplin

“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.” Charlie Chaplin