Alexander Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“Alexander Graham Bell was said to have made the following entirely endearing remark soon after he had invented the telephone: ‘I do not think…

— Stephen Fry

“For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting on desks…

— Avi Steinberg

“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And I don't know, it is one thing to look out a window, but when you are Out, actually Out, that is something very…

— George Saunders

“I have not yet described to you the most singular part. About six years ago—to be exact, upon the 4th of May, 1882—an advertisement…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“We need much bigger pockets I thought as I lay in my bed counting off the seven minutes that it takes a normal person…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Back to the books. The world’s largest bell was built in 1733 in Moscow, and weighed in at more than four hundred thousand pounds.…

— A.J. Jacobs

“To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small paper booklets.…

— Syrie James

“reached for my pocket to text Vee, intending to tell her I was close and to watch for me, when I remembered I’d left…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“I grew as fussy and particular about where to put what, which books should lie where, what cushion should grace what corner as a…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“In his pocket, the mobile phone beeped and wriggled. They'd said on the radio that the entirety of human knowledge was available on these…

— Tom Rachman

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

— Rita Mae Brown