Best Telephone Lines

363 Telephone quotes by 310 unique authors

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. — Jimi Hendrix
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when… — Cyril Connolly
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell. — Rita Mae Brown
One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA — Alexander Graham Bell
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain… — Alice Hoffman
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for… — Kay Redfield Jamison
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the… — Mark Twain
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things… — David Boaz
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to… — Margaret Mead
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked… — Daniel Handler
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides. — W. Somerset Maugham
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone. — Wendy Wasserstein
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists… — Simone de Beauvoir
Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot… — Luke Perry
I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for… — William Saroyan
What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or… — Vinton Cerf
So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front… — Henry Mintzberg
To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into… — Nelson A. Miles
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters,… — Charles C. Mann
Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings… — John Ralston Saul
Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on… — Peter Welch
My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I… — Johnny Cash
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the… — Robert Benchley
9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to… — Dave Barry
What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions… — Dave Barry

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