Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Alexander Graham Bell

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• You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

  

  Barbara Lynn
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• I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• The strength of America is not in Washington.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  

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• Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

  

  Lou Holtz
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• Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

  

  P. J. Plauger
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• To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Want
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• To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
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• Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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• Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
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• It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• Science will almost certainly never come up with anything as wonderful as the electric guitar..

  

  John Peel
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• And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Chance
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• Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Power
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• A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.

  

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• Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Discovery
  • I Hope
  • Telegraph