1.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Alexander Graham Bell
The time shall arrive when the individual at the telephone can view the far-off person to whom they are conversing.
2.
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.
Alan Turing
I have no desire to cultivate a strong intellect.
3.
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
Alexander Graham Bell
The inaugural phrase on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - hasten hither - I desire to converse with you."
4.
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.
Hedda Hopper
5.
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.
Vinton Cerf
6.
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.
Judith Martin
9.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
10.
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
Brian Eno
11.
I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.
Brent Musburger
12.
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.
Gordon B. Hinckley
13.
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
Dorothy Parker
14.
I do not understand why,
when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant,
I'm never served a cooked telephone.
Salvador Dali
15.
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
16.
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.
Stephen Daldry
19.
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
Cole Porter
20.
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?
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
22.
I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
Lee Trevino
23.
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.
Alexander Graham Bell
24.
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.
Thomas S. Monson
25.
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
Chester Carlson
26.
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
Edgar Degas
27.
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .
Mark Twain
28.
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll
29.
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.
Dennis Gabor
30.
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.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
31.
I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone.
Joan Rivers
32.
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
James Stockdale
33.
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.
Ray Bradbury
34.
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.
Dorothy Parker
35.
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.
John Petrucci
36.
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
Chuck Palahniuk
38.
Happiness is a house without a telephone.
Gay Byrne
39.
Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.
Joan Rivers
40.
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
Howard Rheingold
41.
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
C. S. Lewis
42.
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.
Charles Scott Sherrington
44.
There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
Ambrose Bierce
45.
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
Ray Kurzweil
46.
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
Walter Isaacson
47.
You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.
Jeff Foxworthy
48.
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
Mike Fitzpatrick
49.
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.
William Gaddis
50.
First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.
Lady Violet