Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

Alexander Graham Bell

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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
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• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
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• Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • House
  • Parents
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• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • World
  • Girl
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• Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Work
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• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
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• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Thought

• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Death

• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Know
  • Write
  • Start

• I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Always
  • Geek
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• We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Remember
  • Green
  • Big

• I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

• To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Fight
  • Self

• Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Effort

• If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Money
  • Management
  • Insurance

• Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • People
  • Time

• I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Wisdom
  • Enjoy
  • Daily

• It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

  

  Alain de Botton

• At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dumb

• I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Feeling
  • Kite
  • Flying-machine