Morse Code Quotes

• I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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• The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

  Steve Jobs

  Writing, People, Pages

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• I think my heartbeat might be the Morse code for ‘inappropriate.’

  Rives

  Thinking, Might, Inappropriate

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• I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code.

  Emo Philips

  Home, Night, Guy

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• Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

  Mike Ferguson

  Pilots, Beacons, Know How

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• your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Heart, Play

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• The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

  Ron Wyden

  Law, Ethics, Code

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

  Emo Philips

  Construction Workers, Paranoid, Roof

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• From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

  Jason Hicks

  Music, Guitar, Solo

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• I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

  Robert Stone

  Typewriters, Navy, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Rain, Believe

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Block, Writing

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

  Rachel Cohn

  Signals, Given, Dyslexic

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.36, Egmont UK

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• We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.

  Ka

  Rap, Hip Hop, Heat

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• I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Luck, Trying, Would Be

  Rosemary Clement-Moore (2013). “Spirit and Dust”, p.41, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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