Dot Dash Quotes & Sayings

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically. — Hector Elizondo

(The code became known as the dot-and-dash alphabet, but the unmentioned space remained just as important; Morse code was not a binary language.*) That — James Gleick

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more, — Will Smith

I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino. — Javier Bardem

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. — Eliot Spitzer

Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations? — Steve Jobs

There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do. — Monica La Porta

If we are really committed, we better get start taking care of our shit. — M.F. Moonzajer

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it. — Oliver Goldsmith

For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance. — Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Well, he was certainly desirable-as desirable as Sam, maybe. Sam-when had she ever thought of him as desirable? He'd laugh until he died if ever knew she thought of him like that. — Sarah J. Maas

Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, — Kahlil Gibran

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants. — Dick Cavett

In the name of speed, Morse and Vail had realized that they could save strokes by reserving the shorter sequences of dots and dashes for the most common letters. But which letters would be used most often? Little was known about the alphabet's statistics. In search of data on the letters' relative frequencies, Vail was inspired to visit the local newspaper office in Morristown, New Jersey, and look over the type cases. He found a stock of twelve thousand E's, nine thousand T's, and only two hundred Z's. He and Morse rearranged the alphabet accordingly. They had originally used dash-dash-dot to represent T, the second most common letter; now they promoted T to a single dash, thus saving telegraph operators uncountable billions of key taps in the world to come. Long afterward, information theorists calculated that they had come within 15 percent of an optimal arrangement for telegraphing English text. — James Gleick

I have drawn things since I was six. All that I made before the age of sixty-five is not worth counting. At seventy-three I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At ninety I will enter into the secret of things. At a hundred and ten, everything
every dot, every dash
will live — Hokusai Katsushika

We will not have any of these cases in the Soviet Union," said a Soviet delegate confidently. Don Francis couldn't resist saying to Marc Conant in his loudest stage whisper, "And they won't, all right." In a stern Russian accent, Francis continued: "You have AIDS - bang, bang, bang." The Soviets were not amused. — Randy Shilts

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it. — Gary Vaynerchuk

There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they're not faithful to their audience. — Phoenix Elvis Nicholson