Telephones Quotes

• The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Giving, Together

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  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

  Men, Able, He Man

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• The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Nuisance, Convenience

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• The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Humorous, Drinking, Memorable

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• Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

  Doug Larson

  Work, Two, Luxury

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• You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Discipline, Trying

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• Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

  Peter Arno

  Dream, Humorous, Struggle

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• The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  People, Used, Has Beens

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• One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Cities, America, One Day

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• 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

  Skills, Facts, Advantage

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• I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Mercy

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• The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.

  Mitch Albom

  Baby, Couple, Night

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• I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

  Tony Curtis

  Waiting, Rings, I Can

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• If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Nerd, Use

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• I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

  Mark Twain

  Together, May, Bliss

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• First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Technology, Want, Firsts

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• People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Being Alone, People, Together

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Distance, Technology, Devil

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Use, Want, Invention

  "Obama Energy Policy Speech: President Dismisses Republican Critics On Oil Drilling". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

  William Gibson

  Cyberspace, Where You Are

  1994 In the US News & World Report, 21 Jun.

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• I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

  Fred Couples

  Humorous, Phones, Feelings

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• 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

  Limits, Imagine, Killing

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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

  Phones, People, Wire

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Thinking, Voice, Sound

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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