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?
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.
Hitler didn't snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
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.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
