19 Telegraph Quotes for You to Enjoy

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. Emily Greene Balch

Time Technology Rest Distance Telegraph Telephone Facilities Gives Cable Us Lessen Radio Barriers

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? Jules Verne

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed. Richard Jefferies

Good Man Science Good Man Evil Power Enormous Telegraph Press Puts Advantage Equal Also Printing Printing Press Offers Hands Same Double-Edged Double-Edged Sword Moment Illustrated Railway Sword

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect. Alison Gopnik

Telegraph Effect Improvement Same Transformative Exponential Radio

I speak as the journalist who, on the first day back at work for 'The Daily Telegraph' after the birth of my daughter, went to interview Tom Hanks with an epaulette of banana sick on my jacket. Allison Pearson

Work Day Daily Speak Daughter Journalist First Sick Birth Interview Back Telegraph Banana Jacket After Who Tom Tom Hanks

In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it. Andrew Neil

Sold Unlikely Telegraph Highly Go Again Then Event Spectator

There's a substantial difference between dumping 100 copies of the 'Telegraph' at a Connex South Central station and giving away copies of the 'Business' with the 'Mail on Sunday.' 'This kind of circulation is valuable and enhances the brand. Leaving them anywhere willy-nilly devalues the brand. Andrew Neil

But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more. Dan Stevens

Me You Writing Telegraph Way Bit Something More Excited Column Idea Deadlines Same Wanting Which Working Even Actor

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor. Ha-Joon Chang

Change People Long Past Revolution Think Enormity Distances Telegraph Way Tend Factor Over Days Messages Looks Always Huge Up Middle Happened In The Past While Realize Transportation Who

Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires. James Gleick

Invention Before Our Telegraph Carry Nerves Only Crucial Had Wires Genetic Like Obvious Messages Understood Just Substance After Anything Information Inheritance Code Biological

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. John Burroughs

Wisdom Telegraph Telephone Come Up Automobile Cannot Railroad

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off. Lawrence Halprin

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages. Lionel Barber

When Roger Ailes hired me, he knew I was the daughter of a college professor and a nurse. There was nothing in this resume that would telegraph, 'She's a secret conservative.' Megyn Kelly

Me Resume Conservative College Daughter Nothing Nurse Secret Telegraph Would College Professor He Knew She Hired Roger Professor

Ru and I have been best friends since, well, let's just say they used the telegraph when we first met. Being able to work with my BFF is a dream come true and even more? To see what he has done for himself, the art of drag and the gay community in general constantly blows me away. Michelle Visage

Work Art Best Me Gay First Met Community Gay Community Telegraph Say Dream Constantly See Able General More He True Since Come Well Himself Been Friends Blows Done Just Being Used Even Away Drag

I don't like the Sunday newspapers - I read them because I have to. 'Sunday Times,' 'Telegraph,' 'Independent' on Sunday - I find them heavy and too much! I prefer 'The Economist.' Richard Quest

Too Much Sunday Too Telegraph Independent Find Economist Like Read Because Times Heavy Prefer Them Newspapers Much

Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan with a BlackBerry. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Khan Telegraph Telephone Has-Been Blackberry Putin Been Stalin

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