... ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ... — Alfonsina Storni Copy Share Image
Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan,… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The other three incoming calls were from his building superintendent, his pharmacy and a telephone survey company." "Bastards. They always call during… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that even engineers and techs don't know what a tiny telephone connector is - people call them TT… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer… — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
