Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922

Topics

DoorLongLookSeeUsCloses

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

Matt Taibbi

MoneyDayWinGameLegalYear

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

Jeffrey Kluger

SportsDieGamesStudyBrainsEven

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Mary Ritter Beard

ChangeTravelIdeasDeepSeeing

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

Minoru Yamasaki

BuildingBetterBuildingsFindWay

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Jason Mewes

LoveGreatGangsterStorySerious

A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.

Jose Padilha

TodayPeopleLawSocietyStartLook

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

Debby Ryan

PeopleSayingBelieveYouKnowWay

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

Boris Spassky

QualityWorldChampionThinkPlay

That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.

Bradley Wiggins

MeQuestionsWinnerMediaAsking

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

Bruce Nauman

FatherLieThoughtsHurtToolsDown

I want to take on more diverse roles, and I keep building, and I hope to one day write or direct something. But I just want to keep developing as a person, and that will hopefully take my acting to the next level.

Ashley Thomas

HopeDayBuildingActingPerson

One thing I love about Josh Turner is his faith; that's why I looked up to him so much.

Scotty McCreery

LoveFaithWhyHimUpOne Thing

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