Calling Quote by Christopher Morley

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people…

— Anonymous

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

— Michio Kaku

We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they…

— Martin Cooper

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

— Calvin Coolidge

“That telephones can connect us in seconds to any creature on earth foolhardy enough to lift its own chunk of plastic is wonderful. But…

— David James Duncan

“The telephone was not yet at that date as commonly in use as it is today. And yet habit requires so short a time…

— Marcel Proust

I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to…

— LaTanya Richardson

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he…

— Beatrice Webb

...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a…

— Lynne Truss

“Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for?”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are…

— Martin Cooper

Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.

— Jenna Wortham