Convenience Quote by Robert Staughton Lynd

“A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate…

— Alexander Graham Bell

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

— Haruki Murakami

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

— Ambrose Bierce

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly…

— Judith Martin

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

— Alex Comfort

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right…

— Shashi Tharoor

People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But…

— Joanna Coles

It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than…

— Judith Martin

“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

We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.

— Mae Martin

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

— Wendy Wasserstein