Telephone Quotes
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Telephone Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
Communism is just one big telephone company.
— Lenny Bruce
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
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
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
"You've met God?"
"Certainly. I telephone Him every night. — Haruki Murakami
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— 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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— Lady Gaga
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
[ ... ] 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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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