Telescope Poets Quotes & Sayings

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song. — Anne Rice

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works ... Character driven programming! — Tim DeKay

Oh, so close!" she said, her smile getting wider. "But close only counts in horseshoes and dragon fire. — James Riley

In antihistory, time is an illusion. — Jill Lepore

You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless. — LIZ

The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world. It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or China as a flash of rice-fields. But Arabia is not a whirl of sand and China is not a flash of rice-fields. They are ancient civilizations with strange virtues buried like treasures. If we wish to understand them it must not be as tourists or inquirers, it must be with the loyalty of children and the great patience of poets. To conquer these places is to lose them. — G.K. Chesterton

Try to throw a rock through a virtual storefront, and you just get an error. — Eli Pariser