Adele Quotes

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
~ Adele


I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
~ Adele


In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
~ Adele


It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
~ Adele


Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
~ Adele


My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
~ Adele


People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
~ Adele


The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
~ Adele


I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
~ Adele


I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
~ Adele


I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
~ Adele


I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
~ Adele


I love hearing my audience breathe.
~ Adele


I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
~ Adele


I've never been more normal than I am now.
~ Adele

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


Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
~Alexander Graham Bell


The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
~Alexander Graham Bell


The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
~Alexander Graham Bell


What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
~Alexander Graham Bell


A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
~Alexander Graham Bell


America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
~Alexander Graham Bell


Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
~Alexander Graham Bell


Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
~Alexander Graham Bell


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


Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
~Alexander Graham Bell