Telephone Quotes

363 quotes by 315 authors

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end… — Paul Auster
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. — Emily Greene Balch
I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go… — Drew Barrymore
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have… — Ray Bradbury
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at… — Nolan Bushnell
Gossip is nature's telephone. — Sholom Aleichem
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. — Guy Lombardo
There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since… — Bjarne Stroustrup
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. — Florence King
I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever… — John Cheever
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't… — Craig Kilborn
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad… — Mark Twain
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you." — Alexander Graham Bell
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is… — Tom Clancy

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315 authors contributed a total of 363 Telephone Quotes, led by these top contributors: