Quote by Paul Scott Download Open image ““Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones,”” — Paul Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. What he disliked most of all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“. . .they were assisted by the new technological invention of the telephone (that enemy of reflection, which became increasingly accepted as as means of communication) . . .” — Paul Gordon Lauren Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts… — Ralf Hutter Copy Share Image
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Some callings come to you only in memory. Some come only on the mouth of someone you trust. Some don’t need to be heard… — Cole Arthur Riley Copy Share Image
“Mark my words. The telephone will never become a practical necessity.” — Lisa Harris Copy Share Image
“She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“a repository sounds like a place for storing furniture when you bash off to some other station. I suppose an Englishman could say that… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city itself (where… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
