If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.
Interpretation
This quote humorously suggests that if you want to communicate something seriously, you should use a reliable service like Western Union.
Frank Capra's quote comically highlights the importance of using appropriate channels for communication. By referencing Western Union, a historical messaging service, he implies that delivering a message effectively requires the right tools and that relying on unconventional methods may not yield the desired results.
In practice
Use this quote when discussing the importance of choosing the right medium in communication.
Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.
In these days of wars and rumors of wars - haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!
My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
I have a few cavities. I don't like to call them cavities, though - I like to call them 'places to put stuff'. 'Do you know where I can store a pea' 'Yes, I have some locations available.'
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.
I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.
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