Telephones Quotes - Page 2

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

Alexander Graham Bell

Positive, Spiritual, Determination

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I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

Henry Miller

Hate, Writing, Letters

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I don't like telephones.

Marc Bolan

Europe

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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA

Alexander Graham Bell

Cities, Usa, One Day

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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

Two, Bills, Firsts

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At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.

Rita Rudner

Phones, Years, Age

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

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We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

Andre Kostelanetz

Lonely, Nature, Wind

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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

Powerful, Brain, President

Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

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It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

Amy Jo Martin

Media, People, Television

"Shaq's Social Media Guru Shares Her Secrets". Interview with Sam Laird, mashable.com. December 1, 2011.

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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Ogden Nash

Funny, Birthday, Friday

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Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Richard Hugo

Giving Up, Communication, Writing

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Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

Barack Obama

Nsa, Listening, Surveillance

"'Nobody is listening to your calls': Obama's evolution on NSA surveillance" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2013.

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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Social Studies "Tips for Teens" (1981)

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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Emily Greene Balch

Distance, Technology, Giving

Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

Robert Breault

Clever, Past, Ideas

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In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

W. Somerset Maugham

Blessed, Heaven, Use

W. Somerset Maugham (1966). “A Maugham Twelve: Stories selected and with an introduction by Angus Wilson”

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Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons.

Judith Martin

People, Needs, Machines

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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

Mark Twain

Brother, Heart, Men

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Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Guy Lombardo

Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

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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

Years, Luxury, Dollars

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Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

Richard Turner

Block, Phones, Talking

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A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.

Craig Kilborn

Drinking, College, Phones

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The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.

Stephen King

Struggle, Hands, Soul

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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Ogden Nash

Numbers, Slumber, Nations

Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

Ambrose Bierce

Eye, Sacrifice, Science

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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