"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, American inventor, born 1847
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." — Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor, born 1847
"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires." — Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor, born 1857
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open." — Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor, born 1847
"Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head." — Jamie Bell, English dancer, born 1986
"Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out." — Marvin Bell, American poet, born 1937
"Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate." — Marvin Bell, American poet, born 1937
"Much of our lives involves the word ‘no.’ In school we are mostly told, ‘Don’t do it this way. Do it that way.’ But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing." — Marvin Bell, American poet, born 1937
"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for." — Saul Bellow, Canadian-American author, born 1915
"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned." — Saul Bellow, Canadian-American author, born 1915
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." — Saul Bellow, Canadian-American author, Nobel Prize laureate, born June 10, 1915
"I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time." — John Belushi, American comedian, born 1949
"If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." — David Ben-Gurion, First Prime Minister of Israel, born 1886