Quotes and Sayings About Telephones
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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
