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332 Telephones quotes by 289 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into… — Damon Knight
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
Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today. — William J. Clinton
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

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