Quotes from authors that died on Oct 18th
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
Leo Strauss
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
LeAnn Rimes 
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 
Dana Snyder 
Paula Poundstone 
Jill Eikenberry 
James Mcneill Whistler 
Kim Wilde 
Dino De Laurentiis