Telephones Quotes - Page 3

In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

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

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

What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

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

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

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

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

When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.

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

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

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.

If you want to communicate, use the telephone

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