Telephones Quotes

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.

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.

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.

I have a hold limit that I've set for myself. I hold until I start to imagine myself killing the person on the other end. Then I hang up and regroup.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.

The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.

Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the telephone works both ways ((You and I Both))

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show.

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

It is really really important that you deal with Trump either by letter or by personal contact. Trying to deal with him on telephones or through the media is not a good idea.

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.

Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

If you want to communicate, use the telephone

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinzō ] Abe met with him in person.

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.