Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikola Tesla

The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

Nikola Tesla

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Nikola Tesla

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Nikola Tesla

One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.

Nikola Tesla

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

Nikola Tesla

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians...throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static, or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheel work of nature.

Nikola Tesla

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

Nikola Tesla

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Nigel Cole

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

Niels Bohr

Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details - Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.

Neil Gaiman

If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

Nat King Cole

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

Nas

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

Nas

You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.

Nas

All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.

Nas

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.

Nas

I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

Myrtle Reed

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Myrtle Reed

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

Myrtle Reed

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Myrtle Reed

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Myrtle Reed

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

Morris Graves

An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

Morris Kline

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

Morris West

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Morris West

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

Morris West

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

Morris Chestnut

For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to or revisit. After the first movie, when I was crying at the altar, whenever I would think about it, I would get chills for months after the first "Best Man" because I had to go to that place. And then, here we are with this one, and we are going to that place again. It's just extremely emotional to just have to keep revisiting it, but it can also be therapeutic.

Morris Chestnut

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.