Quote by Lisa Harris

“You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would,…

— Brock Clarke

“Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.”

— Asne Seierstad

“The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place”

— Lawrence Durrell

“Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable‒but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.”

— Graham Greene

“I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the…

— James Dickey

“Words are futile devices.”

— Sufjan Stevens

“And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph?”

— Michael Finkel

“That’s one of the problems with young people today. No one has bothered to teach them the rudiments of proper telephone etiquette.”

— J.A. Jance

“Phone convos and clever texts are fine for a while but not forever. She needed that human touch.”

— John Hunt

“At the time I vaguely knew that when anything stirs us that deeply, moves us to the point of distraction, and urgently invites us…

— Karol Jackowski

“And so we turn off the telephone during this program and do not answer the knock at the door that rarely comes.”

— Lydia Davis

“I refuse to answer the phone, especially when it’s not questioning (ringing).”

— Jarod Kintz