Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

Alexander Graham Bell

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• I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Trust
  • Leadership

• I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Funny
  • Thinker
  • Have Fun

• To make the people happy, to forget their problems. Then, to me, I'm doing my job. But to act is a God gift.

  

  Kumar Pallana
  • People
  • God
  • Job

• It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Love
  • Family
  • Distance

• I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Life
  • Together
  • Giving

• The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Important
  • Play
  • Tennis

• Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

  

  Stephen Lewis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Behaviour

• Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Man

• What I wear is everything - from how I carry my hair to what I'm wearing on my feet. I have to feel comfortable on stage, so I like to wear things that have room. My mood changes a lot, so sometimes I wear 6-inch heels, and other times I'll perform in bare feet.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Hair
  • Changes
  • Mood

• Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • You
  • Right
  • Whatever

• Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Taken
  • Storm
  • Presidential

• 'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • House
  • Prison
  • Doors

• I remember something Clint Eastwood told me early on. I don't remember how old I was when you told me this, Dad. But you said, "As an actor, I never went back to my trailer. I always hung out on set and learned." That stuck with me.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Stuck

• Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

  

  Athanasius
  • Prayer
  • Hands
  • Christians

• When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.

  

  Raul Ruiz
  • Something
  • Degrees
  • Latino

• Once the telephone had been invented, it was only a matter of time before the police got in on the new technology and, first in Glasgow and then in London, the police box was born. Here a police officer in need of assistance could find a telephone link to Scotland Yard, a dry space to do “paperwork” and, in certain extreme cases, a life of adventure through space and time.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Technology
  • Telephone
  • Police Officer

• First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Telephone
  • First Words