Telephones famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
-- Alain de Botton -
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
-- Alex Comfort -
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
-- Anna Kavan -
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
-- Bradley Whitford -
I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.
-- Brent Musburger -
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
-- Brian Eno -
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
-- Carlos Drummond de Andrade -
Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.
-- Carson Daly -
If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
-- Charles Williams -
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
-- Chester Carlson -
The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
-- Clifford Stoll -
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
-- Cole Porter -
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.
-- Dennis Gabor -
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
-- Edgar Degas -
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
-- Elie Abel -
Invest in learning and discovering new filmmaking techniques is the next keystone to success. Film is changing rapidly right now. The last big change was the introduction of sound. This time around it is movies on th internet and mobile telephones.
-- Elliot Grove -
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.
-- Esther Williams -
I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes -
In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.
-- Gail Parent -
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
-- Garth Nix -
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.
-- H. G. Wells -
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
-- Howard Rheingold -
People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.
-- Howard Rheingold -
Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots
-- James Stockdale -
A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.
-- John Cheever -
I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.
-- John Hodgman -
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
-- John Sununu -
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.
-- Judith Martin -
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
-- Kinky Friedman -
I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
-- Lee Trevino -
You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?' 'Look, shut up, people might hear.' 'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?
-- Louise Rennison -
The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
-- Margaret Heffernan -
I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.
-- Michael Moore -
We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?
-- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin -
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
-- Mike Fitzpatrick -
Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.
-- Minnie Pearl -
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
-- Mortimer Adler -
Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.
-- Nicole Hollander -
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
-- Niels Diffrient -
My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right ...
-- Patricia Wentworth -
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
-- Ray Bradbury -
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
-- Ray Kurzweil -
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.
-- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi -
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
-- Richard Armour -
If you want to communicate, use the telephone
-- Richard Hugo -
I have a hold limit that I've set for myself. I hold until I start to imagine myself killing the person on the other end. Then I hang up and regroup.
-- Rita Rudner -
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd -
Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.
-- Sam Ewing -
What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.
-- Sherry Turkle -
...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.
-- Stefan Kanfer -
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
-- Stephen Daldry -
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
-- Steven Johnson -
Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.
-- Suzanne Pleshette -
But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
-- Tom Waits -
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
-- Tony Curtis -
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
-- Ursula Curtiss -
What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
-- Vinton Cerf -
It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.
-- Viviane Reding -
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
-- W. G. Sebald -
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.
-- Walter Cronkite -
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
-- Walter Isaacson -
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.
-- William Gaddis -
Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
-- William J. Clinton -
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!
-- Andy Kindler -
The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.
-- Ithiel de Sola Pool -
First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.
-- Lady Violet -
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
-- Chester Carlson -
In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.
-- Rosalind Russell -
I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.
-- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
