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363 Telephone quotes by 310 unique authors

The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few… — Stanley Crouch
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. — Alain de Botton
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition. — Dennis Gabor
I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree… — John C. Lilly
In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So… — Eugene Mirman
Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your… — David Brooks
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone… — Clive James
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone? — Walter Isaacson
Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone. — Mary Kay Ash
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. — Ogden Nash
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas,… — Esther Williams
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience… — Andrew Sullivan
Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give… — James Adams
It seemed to me that, somehow, the blue jay was trying to communicate with me. I would see him fly into the house across the… — Jack Handey
We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps,… — Andre Kostelanetz
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number -… — Crystal Eastman
Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory. — Sam Ewing
The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I… — Bruce Chatwin
If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages… — Tim Wu
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. — Adrienne Rich
If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's… — Barack Obama
During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and… — Philip Emeagwali
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed… — Peter Greenaway
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones. — Douglas Adams

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