Telephones Quotes

Telephones Quote of the day

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.

We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

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.

Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out.

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.

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

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.

Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.

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

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.

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

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

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

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.

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

Happiness is a house without a telephone.

I don't like telephones.

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

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

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

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

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

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

Communism is just one big telephone company.

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.

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

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.