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Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone! — Andy Kindler

Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting, but it is in our character to keep on believing. — Chloe Thurlow

Changes like the telephone and telegraphy, which tend to reduce the cost of organizing spatially, will tend to increase the size of the firm. — Ronald Coase

One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA — Alexander Graham Bell

It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio. — Christopher Bram

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free. — Stephen Fry

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money. — Frank Zappa

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell. — Rita Mae Brown

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone. — Jesse Eisenberg

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides. — W. Somerset Maugham

The FBI and the CIA hate each other, and they both hate the telephone company. The telephone company, in turn, seems to hate everybody. — John A. Keel

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. — Kevin Mitnick

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. — Hedda Hopper

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone. — Rita Mae Brown

She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth. — Bill Haley

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful. — Ambrose Bierce

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

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. — Doug Larson

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali

Ever hear of a telephone, asshole? — Julie James

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border. — Viviane Reding

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. — G.K. Chesterton

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. — Joan Rivers

My words travelled through my veins which hung in the sky like telephone wires. — Annabel Pitcher

We were United World Federalists back then. I don't know what we are now. Telephoners, I guess. We telephone a lot - or I do, anyway, late at night. — Kurt Vonnegut

When I'm governor ... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number. — Kinky Friedman

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone. — Mary Kay Ash

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence. — Ian Fleming

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone. — Earl Wilson

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. — Ogden Nash

She had a nice voice. A nice telephone voice, mostly. She should've carried a goddamn telephone around with her. — J.D. Salinger

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. — Alain De Botton

Love is when you have not been home for three months and call up home and your daughter picks up the phone and says "Papa, I love you! — Avijeet Das

There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30,000 feet as well ? — Alex Morritt

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes. — Bradley Whitford

Communism is just one big telephone company. — Lenny Bruce

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. — Richard Armour

In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call. — Barbara Demick

The telephone was a sign of being rushed. — David Halberstam

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you." — Alexander Graham Bell

I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers. — Silvio Berlusconi

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones. — Douglas Adams

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman. — Nile Rodgers

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx. — Jamie Foxx

A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands. — Charles Hummel

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons. — Anna Kavan

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met."
"You've met God?"
"Certainly. I telephone Him every night. — Haruki Murakami

unhooked telephone": the — Otto F. Kernberg

But I do not know how else the work can be done. To touch a person's heart, you must see a person's face. One cannot reach a soul through a telephone. — Chaim Potok

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.' — Howard Rheingold

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone! — C.S. Lewis

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run. — Edgar Degas

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it. — Tom Hanks

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I stay away from the telephone if at all possible. — Lee Trevino

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

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. — Chuck Palahniuk

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone. — Damon Galgut

Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate. — Robert Dallek

Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number. — Jim Goldberg

Gambling to me is what a telephone pole might be to a groundhog. He sees that it's there but doesn't for the life of him understand why. — David Sedaris

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. — Virginia Woolf

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart. — Mason Cooley

[ ... ] a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone. — Warren Ellis

The telephone voice is but a seduction, a bread crumb to an appetite. — Mitch Albom

One of these days d'you think you'll be able to see things at the end of the telephone?" Peggy said, getting up. — Virginia Woolf

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch. — Scott McNealy

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. — Al Aronowitz

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

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. — Peter Arno

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers. — John Maynard Keynes

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. — Andre Kostelanetz

There were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day. — Ursula Curtiss

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone. — Joyce Carol Oates

Keep your mind clear to create simple solutions. Remove any distractions, like the TV, email prompts, unnecessary interruptions or telephone calls. — Lisa A. Mininni

I've got nothing against telepathy, said Jane; but the telephone is so much more dependable. — Margaret Atwood

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory. — Sam Ewing

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot? — Anne Rice

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring. — Marjorie Hillis

When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance. — Andre Leon Talley

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. — Emily Greene Balch

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. — Ogden Nash

The telephone, it struck me at that moment, is the wrong means of communication for people without ears. — Timur Vermes

Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil. — Sophia Dembling

If Aphrodite is angry, she might make you fall in love with a toy poodle, or a telephone pole. — Rick Riordan

The thing man seeks is seeking him - the telephone was seeking Bell! — Florence Scovel Shinn

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do. — Elie Abel

Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything. — Jo Walton

When she went back to the telephone Hely's breath, on the other end, was ragged and secretive. — Donna Tartt

Reggie, you wrapped your sports car around a telephone pole after drinking a bar."
"Yeah... But I was wearing my seatbelt. — Daniel Younger

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill. — Jay Leno

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill. — Ivana Trump

When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over. — Walker Percy

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers. — Ernest Hemingway,

Minute. And indeed it seemed she never had, or at least never one like this, because when she blinked her eyes it turned into a telephone handset, — Stephen King

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. — Jimi Hendrix

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking. — Meryl Streep

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone. — Ryan White