Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78! — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
“Oh! The melancholy, the fantastic melancholy of that invention that freezes sounds, just as Francois Rabelais had so clownishly imagined! Was it… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating,… — Laurel Lea Copy Share Image
Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone -… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past. — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
“Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image