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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

All alone by the telephone.

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 .