Quotes from Albert Einstein, Emerson, TS Elliot, Edison and More

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Roger Ebert

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

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

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
Roland Emmerich

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
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