Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes, another one opens.

Alexander Graham Bell

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

Alexander Graham Bell

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

Alexander Graham Bell

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Alexander Graham Bell

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

Alexander Graham Bell

Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.

Alexander Graham Bell

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

Alexander Hamilton

A promise must never be broken.

Alexander Hamilton

To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said...

Alexander Hamilton

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Alexander Hamilton

In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.

Alexander Hamilton

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

We want to be the first 20-loss team in the (NCAA) tournament.

Elton Brand

We want to be one of the top teams in the West, and we think we are.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

We want this to be the Lollapalooza of the decade, but with a community-service twist to it.

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Adolph Gottlieb

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

Adolf Eichmann

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

Adolf Galland

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

Adolf Galland

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

Adnan Pachachi

I think the Shiites want a theocracy.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adolf Hitler

I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.

Adolf Hitler

More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.

Adolf Hitler

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

Adolf Hitler

When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.

Adolf Hitler

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Adolf Hitler

The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.

Adolf Hitler

Differentiation of treatment is not motivated by the difference of value of the two races, but of the fundamental difference of their respective natures.