Top 100 Quotes About Telephones
#1. He loves white cables. And white telephones. And white computer monitors with fruit on the back.
Fredrik Backman
#2. Disembodied spirits," said his partner, "are not known to use telephones. Neither are spooks, phantoms, or werewolves."
"That was in the old days. Why shouldn't they change with the times and be modern, too?
Robert Arthur
#3. We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.
Nancy Grossman
#4. I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.
E. Nesbit
#5. I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.
Avicii
#6. Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
John Sununu
#7. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
Alan W. Watts
#8. Letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.
Virginia Woolf
#9. You call this progress, because you have motor cars and telephones and flying machines and a thousand potions to make you smell better? And people sleeping on the streets?
Howard Zinn
#10. Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ...
Alfonsina Storni
#11. I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.
Will Oldham
#12. He couldn't answer me (the ghosts' voices didn't make it through telephones), but he could hear what I said. I felt like I was talking to myself, which was only about the seventeenth weirdest thing I'd done today. And it was just two in the afternoon. "She's
E.J. Copperman
#13. 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
#14. Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?
Donald A. Norman
#15. Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.
Mike Aquilina
#16. When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
Annalee Newitz
#17. I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.
Douglas Adams
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Call your heroes. They have telephones too.
David Hieatt
#22. 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
#24. Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Thabo Mbeki
#25. Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
Brian Eno
#26. Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
Kara Swisher
#27. Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
Hunter S. Thompson
#28. The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.
In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and
telephones, murder and assassination.
Marcus Sedgwick
#29. Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#30. We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.
Howard Rheingold
#31. I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.
Sunil Mittal
#32. Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#33. Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
William J. Clinton
#34. We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people ... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.
Jaron Lanier
#35. You haven't found all the answers yet. Electricity, telephones, these are lovely magic. But the poor go unfed. Men kill for what they cannot gain by their own labour. How to share the magic, the riches, the secrets, that is still the problem.
Anne Rice
#36. Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
Harold H. Greene
#37. First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.
Lady Violet
#38. I've stopped wanting to do any work at all. All work is bullshit. Everyone knows that. No matter how many telephones and extensions, no matter how many secretaries, no matter how many names in the rolodex. It's all bullshit.
Irena Klepfisz
#39. Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ... duct tape.
Cornelia Funke
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.
Janet Fitch
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.
John Cheever
#47. We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.
Martin Cooper
#48. In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone.
Aryn Kyle
#49. In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones - another ancient vacancy profoundly responsible for leisure - they had time for everything: time to think, to talk, time to read, time to wait for a lady!
Booth Tarkington
#50. From "Modern Man" in Every Lyric Tells A Story
His life is run by telephones and clocks
He changes his women, like he changes his socks
He plays to win and sometimes he plays rough
Knows a lot about sex but not much about love
Mark Wilkins
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon
#54. A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
Douglas Adams
#55. It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
Bjork
#56. I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.
John Petrucci
#57. I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business.
C.N. Williamson
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
Alexander Graham Bell
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!
Andy Kindler
#66. It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.
Viviane Reding
#67. 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
#68. In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
W. Somerset Maugham
#69. I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
C.S. Lewis
#70. Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
William Gibson
#71. [On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
Dorothy Parker
#72. As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.
Tom Robbins
#73. Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything.
Jo Walton
#74. 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
#77. The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
Robert Staughton Lynd
#78. We would never get away from it ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
#79. There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
Ambrose Bierce
#80. My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right ...
Patricia Wentworth
#81. Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
Rita Mae Brown
#82. No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
Elie Abel
#83. 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
#84. Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.
Sam Ewing
#85. 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
#86. Communism is just one big telephone company.
Lenny Bruce
#87. I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
John Maynard Keynes
#88. The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
Alex Comfort
#89. When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.
Dave Barry
#90. I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone.
Joan Rivers
#91. Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Niels Diffrient
#92. He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory ... it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#93. In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.
Gail Parent
#94. What Bell is to the telephone - or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography - Haloid could be to xerography.
Chester Carlson
#97. 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
#98. Happiness is a house without a telephone.
Gay Byrne
#99. There were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
Ursula Curtiss
#100. Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.
Nicole Hollander
