Quotes About The Invention Of The Telephone

#1. More data flows into the building in a single day than mankind as a whole would have generated in the twenty-three centuries between the death of Socrates and the invention of the telephone.

Alain De Botton

#2. Content not to know my purpose here or where I'm going.

Marty Rubin

#3. In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'

Eugene Mirman

#4. literature and opera are full of
characters who die for love:
i stay alive for her.
- Excerpt from "No Longer A Teenager

Gerald Locklin

#5. The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

Sean Covey

#6. Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.

Myra Pollack Sadker

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

Ambrose Bierce

#8. It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.

George R R Martin

#9. . . .they were assisted by the new technological invention of the telephone (that enemy of reflection, which became increasingly accepted as as means of communication) . . .

Paul Gordon Lauren

#10. Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.

Brigham Young

#12. No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.

James Lankford

#13. Questions you can wait hours to learn the answers to are fine to put in an email. Questions that require answers in the next few minutes can go into an instant message. For crises that truly merit a sky-is-falling designation, you can use that old-fashioned invention called the telephone. With

Jason Fried

#14. I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

Denis Thatcher

#15. I foresee death by culture shock.

Woody Allen

#16. WENT ON a long journey by telephone last week. It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone.

Theodore Dalrymple

#17. Remember The Poem ...

R.M. Engelhardt

#18. It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.

Christopher Bram

#19. The mind-sets, views, and affective relations of human beings living in a shared world make a difference in what each of us thinks is possible, fitting, or just. A vast revolution can occur in that tiny space.

Jill Stauffer

#20. Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.
[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]

Alexander Graham Bell

#21. You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

Victoria Clayton

#22. I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

Vaclav Havel

#23. Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith

Gautama Buddha

#24. The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

Holly Black