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“Alexander Graham Bell was said to have made the following entirely endearing remark soon after he had invented the telephone: ‘I do not think…

— Stephen Fry

Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where…

— Nancy Gibbs

Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

— Georgette Mosbacher

How long again before some genius invent a phone that you can stick your tongue out and kiss or lick the other person you…

— Glen Rambharack

“This was the eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative…

— Don Delillo, Cosmopolis

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I…

— William Crookes

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

— Ogden Nash

“Here’s an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people’s lives are governed by telephone numbers?”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“How many unsuspected selves could a person have, hidden deep inside? She was beginning to think the number might be infinite.”

— Stephen King

“. . .they were assisted by the new technological invention of the telephone (that enemy of reflection, which became increasingly accepted as as means of communication) . . .”

— Paul Gordon Lauren

“The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate…

— Daniel Alarcón