Quotes About Alexander Graham Bell

#1. On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Walter Isaacson

#2. Jamie popped a handful of Skittles into his bottle of Grolsch. He took a swig and savoured the tangy sweets shrinking in his mouth. He glanced up at the pictures on the pub wall: Alexander Graham Bell, Busby the bird and Sam Spade. The picture of Bogart made Jamie want to put a fag in his mouth

Nasser Hashmi

#3. When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#4. I hate phones," he grumbled into her neck. "Seriously, I wanna go back in time and murder Alexander Graham Bell." He sat up with a groan. "Or was it Edison who invented the phone? I can never remember."
She had to laugh. "I'm pretty sure it was Bell.

Elle Kennedy

#5. The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

Marvin Ammori

#6. What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.

Chubby Checker

#8. In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

Fannie Flagg

#9. Alexander Graham Bell's wife, who said to Alex on their wedding night, Your three minutes are up. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#10. I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

Rita Mae Brown

#11. The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back - from one genius to another, at least - back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell.

Marvin Ammori

#12. Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

Andy Kindler

#13. One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA

Alexander Graham Bell

#14. Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Alexander Graham Bell

#15. 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 that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

#16. Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Alexander Graham Bell

#17. The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Alexander Graham Bell

#18. God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

Alexander Graham Bell

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

Alexander Graham Bell

#20. Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Alexander Graham Bell

#21. The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Alexander Graham Bell

#22. Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Alexander Graham Bell

#23. America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Alexander Graham Bell

#24. The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Alexander Graham Bell

#25. You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Alexander Graham Bell

#26. 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

#27. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Alexander Graham Bell

#28. There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

Alexander Graham Bell

#29. Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

Alexander Graham Bell

#30. 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

#31. What this power is, I cannot say ... All I know is that it exists.

Alexander Graham Bell

#32. I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

Alexander Graham Bell

#33. 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

#34. He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor.

Helen Keller

#35. The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Alexander Graham Bell

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

Alexander Graham Bell

#37. I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! ... I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

Alexander Graham Bell

#38. Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

Alexander Graham Bell

#39. Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

#40. One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell

#41. The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.

Alexander Graham Bell

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

Alexander Graham Bell

#43. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus

Alexander Graham Bell

#44. Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.
[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]

Alexander Graham Bell

#45. With every door that closes a new one opens.

Alexander Graham Bell

#46. The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

Alexander Graham Bell

#47. It is the man who carefully advances step by step ... who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Alexander Graham Bell

#48. He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.

Robert V. Bruce

#49. We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

Alexander Graham Bell

#50. I have always considered myself as an Agnostic ...

Alexander Graham Bell

#51. Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Alexander Graham Bell

#52. The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

Alexander Graham Bell

#53. The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

Alexander Graham Bell

#54. Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

Alexander Graham Bell

#55. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

#56. The inventor ... looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.

Alexander Graham Bell