message quotes

Send them a message.

-Anonymous
  Governor George Wallace's presidential election slogan.

Let us reunite ourselves with our better mind and with the world through science; and let it be one of our angelic revenges on the Philistines, who among their other sins are theguiltyauthors of Fenianism, tofound at Oxford a chair of Celtic, and to send, through the gentle ministration of science, a message of peace to Ireland.

- Matthew Arnold
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

   Along the electric wires the message came: 'He is no better, he is much the same.'

- Alfred Austin
  'On the Illness of the Prince of  Wales'. There is some doubt about the authorship of this satiric poem, but it is usually credited to  Austin.

My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one good thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDSand that is the wife.

- Edwina Currie
  Speech as Health Minister,12 Feb.

The message from the administration today is a message of feareven a message of fear of fear.

- EugeneJ(oseph) McCarthy
  Speech to the Conference of Concerned Democrats, 2 Dec.

The medium is the message.

- (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan
  Speech at the University of British Columbia, 30  Jun, following a symposium in Vancouver on the subject of music and the mass media. The phrase was later used as the title of ch.1in Understanding Media (1964), and as a book title (1969).

Oh, no, the machine, the machine is necessary. A man comesintoagreat hotelandsays,Iama messenger. Who is this man? He disappears walking, there is no noise, nothing. Maybe he will never come back, maybe he will never deliver the message.But a man who rides up on a great machine, this man is responsible, this man exists. He will be given messages.

- Arthur Miller
  Rodolpho.  A View From the Bridge, act1.

A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.

-Vladimir Peniakoff
SPREAD ALARM AND DESPONDENCY1950  Popski's PrivateArmy.

   A great deal has been lost and a great deal gained†may your message be heard†your lessons never be forgotten.

- George Corley Wallace
  Reversing the'segregation for ever'stance of1963. In news reports,11 Mar.