Telephones Quotes - Page 4

• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Horse, Sound, Want

  "The Kennedys". Book by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, 1984.

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• 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

  Lonely, Communication, Journey

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Morning, Aunt, Talking

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• For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  People, Anxiety, Raised

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed" by Daniel H. Wilson, www.slate.com. May 4, 2012.

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• 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

  Science, Church, Bed

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• The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Together, Faces, Email

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• There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Communication, People, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

  Sherry Turkle

  Faces, Generations, Information

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• Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Hands, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 30, 2016

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• Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Business Success, Fax, Links

  Rosalie Maggio (2009). “How to Say It, Third Edition: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation”, p.11, Penguin

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• Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Talking, Breakfast

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• There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

  David Mamet

  Mother, Morning, Phones

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• Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Encouragement, Small Acts, Thanks

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• This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Country, Airplane, Light

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• You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?' 'Look, shut up, people might hear.' 'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?

  Louise Rennison

  Mean, People, Looks

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• I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".

  Renee Zellweger

  Dream, Jobs, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we get at least six hours of daily social time, it increases our wellbeing and minimizes stress and worry. The six hours includes time at work, at home, on the telephone, talking to friends, sending e-mail, and other communication.

  Tom Rath

  Stress, Communication, Home

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Phones, People, Diaries

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

  Michael Moore

  Email, Assuming

  " Michael Moore predicts phone-hacking scandal will spread to Fox News" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2012.

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• 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

  Dirty, Talking, Funny Graduation

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• All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Party, Home, Sleep

  Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, delivered 22 August 1964

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• What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?

  Daphne du Maurier

  Book, Hero, Mean

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• Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

  Dennis Gabor

  Wire, Principles, Transmission

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• Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots

  James Stockdale

  Kings, President, Firsts

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• Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your cordless phone, your telephone plan is suited to your needs, and your various gizmos interact without conflict. Your spouse is athletic, your kids are bright, your job is rewarding, your promotions are inevitable, everywhere you need to be comes with its own accessible parking. You look great in casual slacks.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, Kids, Phones

  David Brooks (2004). “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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