The Telephone Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Telephone

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

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at. — Michael Moore

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

The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies, they are
Calamities. — Charles Bukowski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman. — Bunker Roy

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

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place. — Chuck Palahniuk

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring. — Bradford Dillman

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. — Clifford Stoll

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. — Carl Jung

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

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

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

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

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

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. — Kurt Vonnegut

To be or not to be" was the telephone number of the municipal gas chambers of the Federal Bureau of Termination. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Hello?" Violet said finally.
The telephone said nothing.
"Hello?" Violet said again. "Hello? Hello?"
The telephone did not answer. — Lemony Snicket

The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end. — Peter Dickinson

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. — Donald Sinden

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

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler

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

In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ... — Margaret Wise Brown

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous. — Barton Gellman

Telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button. — Stefan Kanfer

She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone. — Catherynne M Valente

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

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. — Ilka Chase

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

Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees. — Kevin Mitnick

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

The next three days were typical for the holiday season. No one was in or returning telephone calls. Parking — Patricia Cornwell

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life. — Alex Comfort

Will you turn on the radio? I fancy a bit of music," she said. "Louder than that, sweetie. Oh, I love this." "Telephone" by Lady Gaga filled the car. — Robert Galbraith

Writers are always anxious, always on the run
from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien

Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone. — Kevin Mitnick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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