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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#good #invent #junk #need #pile

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#did #fun #i #life #my life

L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#buck #everybody #kind #know #laid

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#better #bigger #fit #gave #into

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#army #basket #cat #dad #doubling

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #mix #much #schizophrenic #slob

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#end #ghosts #having #i #in the end

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#honours #husband #i #i do #love

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#ship #skill #strength #tis

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#european #every #exciting #goes #i