Quotes About Public Telephone

#1. This was a public telephone so it was clearly an oversight that it was working at all.

Douglas Adams

#2. The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

Jonathan Carroll

#3. We haven't had an office open to the public for at least ten years," he answered. "And if I want to complain?" "You do it by telephone." "And if I want to spit in someone's face?" He advised me politely to try the office in Via Confienza, a hundred yards farther on.

Elena Ferrante

#4. My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

Lindsey Vonn

#5. What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

Vint Cerf

#6. A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Beatrice Webb

#8. If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.

Chuck Klosterman

#9. In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Steve Martin

#11. Words were like objects, making the idea more solid
less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

Dan Simmons

#12. Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat
My dress is 1922 ...
My life is all like that.

Dorothy Parker

#13. I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Robin Morgan

#14. Old lady Patterson is a real tightwad." Raising his voice
so it would carry, the man continued, "If she stuck a lump of coal
up her ass, within a week she'd shit out a diamond.

Drew Hunt

#15. Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Elissa Schappell

#16. Whatever you set out to do, it can be done; just be patient and stay focused!

Adam Henig

#17. The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.

Clive James

#18. I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

David Byrne

#19. Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

Alexei Navalny

#20. Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

Amy Bloom

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

Robert Dallek