Best Telephone Thoughts
363 Telephone quotes by 310 unique authors
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Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
— Peter Arno
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It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
— Niels Diffrient
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Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and…
— Nicholson Baker
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To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and…
— T. Boone Pickens
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've…
— Bruce Jenner
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This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want…
— Eric Allman
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I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be…
— Jenna Fischer
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times…
— Harold H. Greene
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They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the…
— Arthur Miller
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The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man…
— Marlon Brando
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't…
— Dorothy Parker
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I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when…
— Ben Fountain
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Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since…
— Hu Jintao
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I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.
— Sam the Sham
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Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details,…
— Alexander Kluge
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We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're…
— Niklas Zennstrom
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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's…
— David Hockney
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Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
— Elie Abel
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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
— Ogden Nash
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I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
— Stephen Daldry
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I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build…
— Julie London
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In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us…
— Ambrose Bierce
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310 authors contributed a total of 363 Telephone Quotes, led by these top contributors: