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

In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold. — Gail Parent

Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today. — William J. Clinton

Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income. — Ray Bradbury

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up. — Nicole Hollander

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 earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe. — Wyndham Lewis

Isn't it better to live in ignorance of everything
asphalt and macadam, vehicles, telephones, televisions
to live in bliss without knowing it? — Greg Mortenson

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

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine. — Tom Robbins

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

[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this? — Dorothy Parker

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

It is remarkable to think that we have had electric lights and telephones for about as long as we have known that germs kill people. — Bill Bryson

What Bell is to the telephone - or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography - Haloid could be to xerography. — Chester Carlson

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent. — Alexander Graham Bell

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

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb. — George Gilder

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

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

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 most important single technological resource of later life. — Alex Comfort

I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone. — Joan Rivers

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

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

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone. — William Gibson

The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette. — Christopher Isherwood

Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria. — Mike Aquilina

Happiness is a house without a telephone. — Gay Byrne

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so. — Dorothy Parker

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

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. — Douglas Coupland

All alone by the telephone. — Irving Berlin

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. — Brian Eno

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

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime. — Niels Diffrient

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations. — Ithiel De Sola Pool

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

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

Communism is just one big telephone company. — Lenny Bruce

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

He loves white cables. And white telephones. And white computer monitors with fruit on the back. — Fredrik Backman

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there. — Abel Ferrara

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

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. — Mike Fitzpatrick

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call. — Nicholas Negroponte

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel. — Lady Violet

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

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

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

Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ... — Alfonsina Storni

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

Call your heroes. They have telephones too. — David Hieatt

I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you. — Sam Crawford

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

I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill. — Henny Youngman

I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing. — E. Nesbit

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? — Rutherford B. Hayes

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all. — Catherine Coulter

I don't like telephones. — Marc Bolan