Nikola Tesla Quotes

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Nikola Tesla

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• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Business
  • Best
  • Football

• Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Good
  • Women
  • Man

• I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Play
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Crazy
  • Said

• Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Always
  • Yourself

• I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Singer

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Street

• I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Like

• We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• I bat righty.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Bat

• 'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Like
  • Dog
  • Without

• It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Challenge

• It makes me feel so amazing to know there's people out here that support me and follow me on Twitter and watch my shows on YouTube and come to my concert, so I'm very thankful.

  

  Austin Mahone
  • People
  • Support
  • Amazing

• I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Done

• I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Real
  • Thought
  • Knew

• English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

  

  John Ruskin
  • English
  • Artists
  • Ruined

• I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• I think people would be up in arms. I think we would most likely have a similar situation to what happened in the 60s. I don't know if it would be as violent, I think it would be difficult to say that. But I think that, from what I can understand, our nation as a whole is largely against the war as it stands.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • War

• When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Pity
  • Apples
  • Presses

• Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Artists
  • Shadows
  • Creations