Best Telephones Words
332 Telephones quotes by 289 unique authors
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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
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In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned…
— Peter Matthiessen
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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a…
— Anais Nin
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
— Adrienne Rich
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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
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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
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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
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A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
— Douglas Adams
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As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making…
— Martin Cooper
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We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give…
— Martin Cooper
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What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.
— Bunker Roy
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The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter.…
— Nick Bantock
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The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic…
— Jonathan Carroll
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I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
— Richard Armour
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The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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If you want to communicate, use the telephone
— Richard Hugo
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The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author,…
— Gore Vidal
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In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses…
— Virgil Goode
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Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation…
— Alan Watts
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And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in…
— Steve Case
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I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your…
— Jon Postel
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He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.
— Brendan Gill
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What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
— Chester Carlson
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
— Ilka Chase
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