Telephones Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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.

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.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by 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.

I don't like telephones.

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.

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

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.

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

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

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

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.

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

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

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.

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

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

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.