Telephones Quotes

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

I do not understand why,
when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant,
I'm never served a cooked telephone.

Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?

All alone by the telephone.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.

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

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Happiness is a house without a telephone.

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

I don't like telephones.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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