Gertrude Bell Quotes

#1. All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

Gertrude Bell

#2. But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there wasn't one here, at least she would learn how to conduct herself for the chase.

Janet Wallach

#3. If someone is capable of Hurting you, you must be Capable of not getting hurt.

Mohith Agadi

#4. Are your kids afraid of the Dentist?

Rhonda Patton

#5. I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough.

Lil' Kim

#6. Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.

Richard Brancatisano

#7. The holy men sat in an atmosphere
reeking of antiquity, so thick with the
dust of ages that you can't see through it
nor can they.

Gertrude Bell

#8. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

Ian Anderson

#9. To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

Gertrude Bell

#10. Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

James Laughlin

#11. I turn my head from side to side.

Robert M. Pirsig

#12. I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

Gertrude Bell

#13. I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals ...

Gertrude Bell

#14. It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

Gertrude Bell