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• The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.

  Clive James

  America, Looks, World

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.

  David Ogilvy

  Art, Business, Drinking

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• I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

  Les Paul

  Mother, Talking, Two

  "Les Paul Interview: In His Own Words". Interview with Rick Landers, guitarinternational.com.

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• So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

  Edgar Degas

  Running, Rings

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• The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

  Alain de Botton

  Hands, Beloved, Instruments

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day long—this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).

  Lydia Davis

  Lying, Thinking, Long

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• Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Men, Space

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• The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.

  Howard Brenton

  Art, Night, Lunch

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• I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything

  John C. Lilly

  Believe, Needs, Culture

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• June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

  Carl Bernstein

  Morning, Men, June

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a telephone book... Contrariwise, appreciation of this element makes the subject live in a wonderful manner and burn as no other creation of the human mind seems to do.

  Philip J. Davis

  Appreciation, Book, Dust

  Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.185, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

  Nancy Mairs

  Girl, Children, Cat

  Nancy Mairs (1992). “Plaintext”, University of Arizona Press

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• There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Looks

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Doors, Water

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, Army, Men

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• Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

  Steven Johnson

  Innovation, Batteries, Radio

  "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Yoga, Fake

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Technology, People

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• Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Communication, Media, Intellectual

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• The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.

  Stanley Crouch

  Moving, Airplane, Light

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• I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.

  Avicii

  Iphone, Phones, Apples

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

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• Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.

  Billy Wilder

  Stupid, Book, Fighting

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• America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

  Ilka Chase

  Inspirational, Men, America

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• What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.

  Chester Carlson

  Photography, Bells

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• The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

  Brendan Gill

  Summer, Morning, Order

  BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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