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  • For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

    Howard K. Smith (1951). “The State of Europe”
  • The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

  • A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

    George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]
  • The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.

  • This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

  • Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)

    Sight   Trying   Needs  
  • I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

  • The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.

  • When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

    Long   News   Mouths  
    Robert Pinget (1966). “Mahu: Or, The Material: a Novel”, Riverrun Press
  • The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

    Song: Everything Is Different Now, Album: Inside Job, 2000
  • This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

    War   Men   Hands  
  • Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.

    Next Day   Islands   Sea  
    Thor Heyerdahl (1990). “Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
  • Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.

    "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo".
  • A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

  • Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

  • Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

    Passion   Writing   Heart  
  • How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

    Crazy   Guy   Pages  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.

    War   Mean   Yesterday  
  • Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

    Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet
  • I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he said. Unexpectedly, Max swiveled around, yanked his pants down. The last thing I thought I had wanted to see tonight was Merc walking out the door. I was wrong. It was this stranger's rear end. "Please don't tell me this is one of those stripping telegrams?

    Doors   Lasts   Pants  
  • Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

    Loss   Doors   Quiet  
    Kristina Mcmorris (2013). “The Pieces We Keep”, p.131, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

    Twenties   Cost   Bucks  
    Suzanne Brockmann (2004). “Hot Target”, p.53, Ballantine Books
  • 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?

  • After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.

    Brain   Nintendo   Body  
  • I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

    "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
  • 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.

    Nice   People   World  
  • I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.

    Names   Play   Brave  
  • Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

    Fax   Facts   Holograms  
    Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
  • I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

    Mother   Father   Believe  
  • Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales reps to different parts of the Australian outback. A while later, the company received a telegram from each. The first said, 'No business here - the natives don't wear shoes.' The second said, 'Great opportunity here - the natives don't wear shoes.'

    Opportunity   Two   Years  
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