Telephone Quotes

• I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Discovery
  • Telephone
  • Magnetic Field

• He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Man
  • Him
  • Telephone

• The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Good
  • Telephone

• She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

  

  Bill Haley Bill Haley & His Comets
  • Small
  • Booth
  • Mamba

• I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Money
  • Lot
  • Telephone

• The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Earth
  • London
  • Products

• My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Light
  • Quiet
  • Telephone

• NANCY DREW began peeling off her garden gloves as she ran up the porch steps and into the hall to answer the ringing telephone. She picked it up and said, “Hello!”

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Answer
  • Ran
  • Gloves

• The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Existence
  • Case
  • Airplanes

• E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • E-mail
  • Telephone
  • Convenient

• In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Great
  • Picture
  • Red

• 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.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Advantage
  • Instrument
  • Skill

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

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Telephone
  • Inform
  • Telegram

• When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Consciousness
  • Telephone
  • Write Songs

• We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Switch
  • Computing
  • Tap

• Once the telephone had been invented, it was only a matter of time before the police got in on the new technology and, first in Glasgow and then in London, the police box was born. Here a police officer in need of assistance could find a telephone link to Scotland Yard, a dry space to do “paperwork” and, in certain extreme cases, a life of adventure through space and time.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Technology
  • Police Officer
  • Scotland Yard

• I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Understand
  • Restaurant
  • Telephone

• She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Together
  • Woman
  • Borders

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

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Together
  • Reality
  • Virtual

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

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Telephone
  • First Words

• The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Business
  • Americans
  • Waste

• It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

  

  Michael Eisner
  • Matter
  • Going
  • Disney

• Happiness is a house without a telephone.

  

  Gay Byrne
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Telephone

• The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Man
  • Speaking
  • Telephone

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