Telephone Quotes - page 2

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone. (Patricia Highsmith)
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another. View quote
Steven Johnson
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. View quote
Charles Williams
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call. View quote
Barbara Demick
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes. View quote
Bradley Whitford
We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen. View quote
David Levithan
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' View quote
Julian Fellowes
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. View quote
Edna O'Brien
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. View quote
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
It's going to take some time this time To get myself in shape. I really fell out of line this time, I really missed the gate. The birds on the telephone line, (next time) Are cryin' out to me, (next time) And I won't be so blind next time And I'll find some harmony. (Carole King)
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. View quote
Doug Larson
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. View quote
Vint Cerf
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone. View quote
Esther Williams
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. View quote
Alexander Kluge
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. View quote
Adam Rickitt
I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple. View quote
Barbara Olson
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. (Ben Fountain)
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. View quote
Crystal Eastman
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. View quote
Donald Sinden
This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem. View quote
Eric Allman
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. View quote
Edwin Way Teale