William Henry Preece quote: "The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth's crust. The theory that the earth acts as a great reservoir for electricity may be placed in the physicist's waste-paper basket, with phlogiston, the materiality of light, and other old-time hypotheses."

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
SIR WILLIAM PREECE

He's arguably the best wrestler in the history of our program. He's a great wrestler. Some wrestlers...
BRIAN PREECE

It's becoming less adversarial. It's become more of an employer-employee relationship.
BRIAN PREECE

It's a pretty thankless job. We don't receive a lot of credit from the general public, and the major...
BRIAN PREECE

My goal is to be in the top five or six as team. We can do that if we keep wrestling well.
BRIAN PREECE

I couldn't be more happy with my boys. We had two guys that I wasn't sure were going to make it thro...
BRIAN PREECE

We try not to deal with the crowd. The school's administration is usually good about handling those ...
BRIAN PREECE

Traveling to the South Atlantic is quite problematic for a very pedestrian snail.
RICHARD PREECE

Darwin stuck snails on ducks' feet and submerged them in seawater and found them to die quickly on e...
RICHARD PREECE

One of the species on the Azores returned to Europe. It seems that having got there in the first ins...
RICHARD PREECE

Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous ...
RICHARD PREECE

Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type...
RICHARD PREECE

I think because they live in trees and are particularly sticky, they're prone to being carried by bi...
RICHARD PREECE

This clearly has nothing to do with human agency. These dispersal events happened long before humans...
RICHARD PREECE

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
WILLIAM HENRY

The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.
WILLIAM HENRY

Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.
WILLIAM HENRY

Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble!
WILLIAM HENRY

It just proves what I've always believed. You can't let any one person take hold of your dreams; you...
WILLIAM HENRY

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.
WILLIAM HENRY

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen
WILLIAM HENRY

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing, Beneath a Rainbow's lovely...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds a...
WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the ...
WILLIAM HENRY DANFORTH

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inch...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly ...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later f...
WILLIAM HENRY MOODY

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD

I am one of the crucified dead.
WILLIAM HENRY MOODY

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the t...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poo...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on boa...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they coul...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath th...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are dire...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING

Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright From th...
WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to a...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

It appears from this information that the river is not the Multnomah, a southern branch of the Colum...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the countr...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties o...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not m...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss ...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules ...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

Christ is the eternal Son of God, and He is in His divine attributes the same yesterday and today an...
WILLIAM HENRY FROST

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

I turned my head and saw the wind,Not far from where I stood,Dragging the corn by her golden hair,In...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise ...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fi...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask noth...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to absta...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are direc...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

I love thee for a heart that's kind --not for the knowledge in thy mind.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

My walls outside must have some flowers,My walls within must have some books;A house that's small; a...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Good morning, Life -- and allThings glad and beautiful.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

And though I'm sure I see those eyes, I'm not so sure a body's there!
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and th...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich ric...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

[There is an] immense advantage to be gained by ample space and appropriate surroundings in aiding t...
WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER

It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop ...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of ...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instin...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascen...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

With this small house, this garden large,This little gold, this lovely mate,With health in body, pea...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.
WILLIAM HENRY III

And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long - / The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Sq...
BARON WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happine...
BARON WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE

My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolera...
SIR WILLIAM HENRY MAULE

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.
WILLIAM A. HENRY III

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ...
HENRY BESSEMER

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
HENRY DRUMMOND

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests...
HENRY ROLLINS

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans valu...
BRAD HENRY

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans th...
BRAD HENRY

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
BRAD HENRY

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
BRAD HENRY

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
BRAD HENRY

The status quo is simply unacceptable.
BRAD HENRY

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
BRAD HENRY

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opp...
BRAD HENRY

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we ...
BRAD HENRY

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach thei...
BRAD HENRY

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
BRAD HENRY

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce i...
BRAD HENRY

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
BRAD HENRY

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family ...
BRAD HENRY

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
BRAD HENRY

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
BRAD HENRY

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is...
BRAD HENRY

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abando...
HENRY ROLLINS

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.
HENRY CAVILL

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the e...
BRAD HENRY

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGER

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.
HENRY SAMUELI

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
HENRY ROLLINS

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
HENRY ROLLINS

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentia...
HENRY GIROUX

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor...
PATRICK HENRY

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us o...
HENRY ROLLINS

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. Th...
THIERRY HENRY

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
HENRY SPENCER

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the in...
HENRY GRUNWALD

After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGER

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
HENRY ROLLINS

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and...
HENRY CLOUD

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down,...
HENRY ROLLINS

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, aw...
HENRY MILLER

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ...
PATRICK HENRY

The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRY

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...
PATRICK HENRY

Fear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRY

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY

If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRY

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...
HENRY MILLER

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring...
HENRY VAUGHAN

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
HENRY ROLLINS

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pa...
HENRY ROLLINS

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY

Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...
HENRY ROLLINS

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few ...
HENRY ROLLINS

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed ...
HENRY BESSEMER

Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 ...
HENRY ROLLINS

$250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY

I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY

Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY

This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many st...
HENRY WILLIAMSON

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a batt...
HENRY VILLARD

Today, most believers are segregated and isolated in their church or in their home. If believers acc...
HENRY HON

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS

You are the reason I don't want to die all the time. When I am with you, life is worth living. Tim...
HENRY ROLLINS

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I ...
HENRY SELICK

The world is the mirror of myself dying.
HENRY MILLER

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext...
HENRY MILLER

This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one w...
PATRICK HENRY

There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those in...
PATRICK HENRY

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our ...
PATRICK HENRY

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a pain...
PATRICK HENRY

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? ...
PATRICK HENRY

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
HENRY VAUGHAN

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