Best Telephone Qoutes
363 Telephone quotes by 310 unique authors
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You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that…
— Evgeny Morozov
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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
— Howard Rheingold
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People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media…
— Howard Rheingold
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What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just…
— Sherry Turkle
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The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against…
— Stephen King
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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like…
— Bill Watterson
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I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is…
— Tom Waits
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Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either…
— Nick Hornby
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for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I…
— Charles Bukowski
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We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said…
— David Levithan
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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 there? What is…
— John Hodgman
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A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
— Stephen Fry
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It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if…
— Randy Pausch
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.
— Edna O'Brien
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The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
— Charles Williams
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J.D. cleared his throat and pushed the button on the intercom. “Uh, Payton, hi. It’s J.D.” Dead silence. Then another crackle. “Sorry. Not interested.” Cute.…
— Julie James
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You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?' 'Look, shut up, people might hear.' 'What do you mean, the people who live in…
— Louise Rennison
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun…
— Andrea Camilleri
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As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?" "Yum," said Mogget.…
— Garth Nix
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Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
— Richard Hugo
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We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham…
— Dave Barry
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You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and…
— Jodi Picoult
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