Best Telephone Sayings
363 Telephone quotes by 310 unique authors
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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone…
— Alan Turing
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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or…
— David Ogilvy
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I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them…
— Les Paul
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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book?…
— Daphne du Maurier
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
— Edgar Degas
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
— Christian Lous Lange
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Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology…
— Albert Speer
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Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
— Carl Jung
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The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
— Clifford Stoll
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So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base…
— Stephen King
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There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw…
— Stephen King
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The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of…
— Unknown Author
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I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left…
— Lydia Davis
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Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the…
— James Stockdale
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Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy
— Eric Hobsbawm
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June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington…
— Carl Bernstein
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Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a…
— Philip J. Davis
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Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night…
— Nancy Mairs
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In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an…
— J F C Fuller
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Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel…
— Steven Johnson
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