Best Telephones Thoughts
332 Telephones quotes by 289 unique authors
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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
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Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.
— Richard Turner
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In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps,…
— John Cheever
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down…
— Will Oldham
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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
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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
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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
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My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I…
— Johnny Cash
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[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
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Don't call me when you're stuck in traffic. It's not my fault that radio sucks and did it ever occur to you that there wouldn't…
— Bill Maher
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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
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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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One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other..
— Erma Bombeck
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Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.
— Erma Bombeck
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Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.
— Erma Bombeck
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[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.
— Frank Sinatra
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I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend…
— Dave Barry
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