Quotes of Telegram - somelinesforyou

“ We've basically sold our position in USAI,... We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television. ”

- Paul Allen

“ By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The overabundance of scripted programming on broadcast and cable networks has made audiences mostly numb to it. ”

- Ted Harbert

“ The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough. ”

- Bill Maher

“ The price of cable has gone up exponentially. It's directly a result of a lack of competition. ”

- Robert Johnson

“ New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. ”

- Ian Hart

“ That's like asking you to pick your favorite child… I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber. ”

- Mel Gibson

“ Meanwhile, there's more poker than soft porn on cable TV these days - and the broadcast networks are getting in on the game as well. ”

- Richard Roeper

“ I think that we have to look at television, we have to look at cable, we have to look at the gratuitous levels of violence in our theaters. We as parents have to look at the Internet. ”

- Bill Owens

“ There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack. ”

- Sean Connery

“ John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ”

- Alan Turing

“ The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ”

- Edwin Way Teale

“ Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.". ”

- Robert Brault

“ All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ”

- Horace Mann

“ We are the wire, God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us. ”

- Carlo Carretto

“ The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. ”

- Anonymous

“ God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Frau Schaub came as an ambassador bringing flowers and telegrams. The result is that my whole office resembles a flower shop and smells like a cemetery chapel. ”

- Eva Braun

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

- George Ade
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