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Telephones Quotes - Page 5

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Ernest Hemingway
Telephones, Visitors, Destroyers
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Elie Abel
Matter, Telephones, Facts
Elie Abel (1968). “The Missile Crisis”

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

David Hockney
Drawing, Telephones

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

Daniel H. Wilson
People, Anxiety, Telephones
"I (Robot) Thee Wed" by Daniel H. Wilson, www.slate.com. May 4, 2012.

The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

Christopher Isherwood
Roulette, Telephones
Christopher Isherwood (1949). “The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary”

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Charles Williams
Bells, Rooms, Telephones
Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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.

Carson Daly
Kids, Games, Telephones

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

Bradley Whitford
Tennis, Telephones, Minutes
Interview with ESPN, www.espn.com.

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

Anna Kavan
Dragons, Telephones, Mets
Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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

Andy Kindler
Bells, Telephones, Firsts

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