Telephones Quotes - Page 3

• Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

  Walter Isaacson

  Research, Bells, Scoffing

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

  Brian Eno

  Conversation, Objects, Values

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Space, Years, Two

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.63, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  New York, Next Day, Lines

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• 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

  Country, People, Television

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• Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Luxury, People, Taxes

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• 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

  Golf, Play, Carts

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• Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Time, Phones, Return

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• A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves". Book by Orison Swett Marden, archive.org. 1901.

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• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

  Alan Turing

  Powerful, Brain, Mediocre

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

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• I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Numbers, Remember, Knows

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• First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

  Lady Violet

  Firsts, Sometimes, Electricity

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• Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Income

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Schedules, Allergic, Concerned

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?

  William Crookes

  Mean, Thinking, Should Have

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• Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Communication, Media

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• I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Distance, Party

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• We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.

  Anne Tyler

  House, Waiting, Teens

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.58, Random House

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• Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Communication, Mean, Men

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.

  Lilly Dache

  Men, Names, Numbers

  1955 'Lilly Dache¤'s Secrets of Lifelong Glamour Book', in Woman's Home Companion, vol.82, Jul.

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• Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.

  Nicole Hollander

  Home, Right Now, Hang Ups

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• The greatest sex toy ever invented may be the telephone. Sometimes there's nothing more erotic than a disembodied voice, no question more tantalizing than a whispered 'What are you wearing?' Especially when you can make up the answer. On the phone your hair always looks great, your legs are always shaved, your worst pair of underwear becomes a silk negligee.

  Meghan Daum

  Sex, Voice, Phones

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• It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

  Viviane Reding

  Borders, Bills, Consumers

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• Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.

  Saul Williams

  Stars, Son, Moon

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

  Clifford Stoll

  Technology, Internet Users, Internet

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