Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

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• I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Physics

• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Country
  • Job
  • Cold

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Feel
  • Weird
  • Connection

• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Real
  • Best

• Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Miss

• The delights of self-discovery are always available.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Learning
  • Always
  • Available

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Eat
  • Diet

• Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Down
  • Debate
  • Rather

• Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Democracy
  • Individual
  • Renew

• The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.

  

  Rajneesh

• For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

  

  Langston Hughes

• We are confident that our revolution has already succeeded and that the regime of Saleh has in effect, already collapsed.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Revolution

• Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Death
  • Missionary

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries - I'm cool with that. No one should ever be limited by stereotypes of gender, just as no one should ever be limited by stereotypes of race.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Up
  • Cool

• I'm not witty.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Witty

• We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Help
  • Small
  • Sick

• America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • America
  • Newspaper
  • Inventors