In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

— Barack Obama

“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you. [ First intelligible words spoken over the telephone ]”

— Alexander Graham Bell

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

— Sam Ewing

Telephone companies do not shut off your phone line based on what political views you express during calls. The same logic should apply today…

— Bill Hagerty

“JUST WHAT IS GOOGLE? In 1902, the New York Telephone Company opened the world’s first school for “telephone girls.” It was an exclusive institution…

— Tim Wu

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

— Howard Rheingold

It could be a little bit sad as a young girl to sit there and wait in front of the telephone that would never…

— Anna Karina

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

— Alex Comfort

The KKK members that I was dealing with never saw me because my interaction with them occurred over the phone. They were convinced that…

— Ron Stallworth

Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship…

— Charles Duhigg

“The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television,…

— Agatha Christie

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

— Ray Kurzweil

I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers.

— Silvio Berlusconi

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Chuck Palahniuk