Telegraph Quote by Michael Finkel

“He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general. "It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".”

— Patrick Carman

“I don’t see why one can’t simply rely on the telegram,” Whyborne said, eyeing the telephone with an air of distrust. “Why on earth…

— Jordan L. Hawk

“...these phones are not for transmitting literature; they are news lines, dedicated to the who, the what, the when, the where, and sometimes, perhaps,…

— Amy Rowland 2

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every…

— James Gleick

“If you've got a message, send a telegram.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

“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

“Mark my words. The telephone will never become a practical necessity.”

— Lisa Harris

“What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“There are smiles that actually travel along telephone wires, although no engineer at Bell Laboratories could explain how it works.”

— Tom Robbins

“People have become so accustomed to texting that they're actually startled when the phone rings. It's like we suddenly all have Bat-phones. If it…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“If someone takes the time to text, you damned well better be kind enough to check it.”

— Melissa Foster