Top 34 Quotes About Telegrams
#1. Ask the first lion cub you meet, and it will tell you that, once you've tasted blood, there is no pulling up, and it's the same with opening telegrams.
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#3. As it happened, their father had not had to spend very much time worrying. He had received telegrams from both sons, telling him each was looking for the other. The telegrams, Leslie later learned, had arrived five minutes apart, "so that father knew at home that we were both safe before we did.
Erik Larson
#4. For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!
James Gleick
#5. All six telegrams arrive at the same place together. What happens next is that you make a choice. What will it be? Most adults know that the rational choice - in terms of health, weight, nutrition, and
Deepak Chopra
#6. Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
Alison Gopnik
#7. It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
Jeanette Winterson
#8. I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.
Katherine Mansfield
#9. Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
Douglas Alexander
#10. I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
W. Averell Harriman
#11. Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
Edward Albee
#12. I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Emil Cioran
#13. Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
Tom Hanks
#14. Episode 5: Meanwhile, they'd all lost touch, because they didn't have Facebook and phones were expensive or whatever. (You do have to feel sorry for the older generation. I mean, all this "pay phones" and "telegrams" and "airmail." How did they cope?)
Sophie Kinsella
#15. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
E. M. Forster
#16. It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe.
John Blair
#17. History was indeed controlled by blind forces, as well as character and courage and treachery and love. And accident and random chance. And stray bullets and telegrams and tips. And cats.
Connie Willis
#18. When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
Charlotte Whitton
#20. When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
Francis Ford Coppola
#21. Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.
Gil Hodges
#22. In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.
Carol Guzy
#24. When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#25. As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.
Vincent Piazza
#26. Hitler didn't snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
Jesse Owens
#28. And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Kahlil Gibran
#29. Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
Mandy Moore
#30. She could have never believed in the morning that her colorless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope.
Thomas Hardy
#31. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
Samuel Johnson
#32. Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project.
Henry Giroux
#33. Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
Peter Ackroyd
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