"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, American inventor, born 1847
"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, American inventor, born 1847
"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods." — Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor, born 1847
"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world." — Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor, born 1847
"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, American inventor, born 1847
"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