Nerd Wild

Best quote site with a database of over 15,000!

Tag: New York

Total 11 Posts

I liked New

I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal—monotonous.

You see, wire

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference

Continue Reading

No flying machine

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris … [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

You see, wire

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference

Continue Reading

I went to

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Sometimes I get

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.