Nikola Tesla Quotes

I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

Nikola Tesla

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• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Think
  • Man

• The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Safe Kids Campaign

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Me

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • History
  • True

• No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Planned

• There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Women
  • Two
  • Only

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Country
  • Death
  • Man

• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Humility
  • Alive
  • Him

• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Path
  • Influence
  • Down

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • More

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

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  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Win

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Wrong
  • Satyagrahi

• When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree.

  

  William Blake
  • Tree
  • Nations
  • Arts

• Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Die
  • Fly

• Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the woods , the frolicking deer, a bird flying proudly, or fish swimming. Life is not all that grim. In the morning when you brush your teeth, you can see how shiny they are. Reality has its own gallantry, spark, and arrogance. You can study life while you are alive. You can study how you can achieve the brilliance of life.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Love
  • Purpose
  • Bird