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!
Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.
I like to do things that are publicly embarrassing, to feel the embarrassment touch me and sink into me and then be gone. I like getting on elevators and singing too loudly in that small space. The feeling you feel is almost like a vapor. The discomfort and the wishing that it would end that comes around you.
Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?
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