“Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.”
Walter Cronkite
“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
Walter Benjamin
“There is no part of the UK that remains unaffected by HIV or other sexually transmitted infections.”
Barry Evans
“Only birds can be infected. There is no bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans in Dagestan.”
Nikolai Vlasov
“We had to find a way to transmit huge amounts of data — pictures, plume charts.... All that data is very complex and it's hard over radio to relay to someone wearing chemical protective gear.”
Casey Beard
“I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”
William Blake
“I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.”
William McKinley
