Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers. — Mary Edwards Walker Copy Share Image
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Bob Corker was not the inside man that, certainly, Senator [Jeff] Sessions was. And he doesn't telegraph what's going on. He's been… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires. — Christilot Hanson-Boylen Copy Share Image
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should)… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get… This whole… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders… Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
Whatever influence you have, it's only for a small amount of time. When Sir Frank (Packer) sold the Daily and Sunday Telegraph… — Ita Buttrose Copy Share Image
From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“Consider this oddly neglected fact: the West was acquired, conquested, and largely consolidated into the nation coincident with the greatest breakthrough in… — Elliott West Copy Share Image
“And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph?” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“But if one can't believe the Daily Telegraph one might as well become an Existentialist.” — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
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