Telephone Quotes

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. (Ogden Nash)
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. View quote
Christopher Morley
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. View quote
Mortimer Adler
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
On the telephone That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. (Clifford Stoll)
America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. View quote
Ilka Chase
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. View quote
Daniel Handler
You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God! View quote
Tennessee Williams
It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade. View quote
Ben Klassen
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. View quote
William F. Buckley
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer. View quote
Douglas Adams
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. (Peter Arno)
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. View quote
Hedda Hopper
I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. View quote
Conor Oberst
When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow! View quote
Yuri Gagarin
Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule. View quote
Satyajit Ray