Telephone Quotes

• Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Freak
  • Telephone
  • Reported

• Happiness is a house without a telephone.

  

  Gay Byrne
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Telephone

• What demands an answer but asks no question? A A telephone.

  

  Andy Griffiths
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Telephone

• Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Sleep
  • Wealth

• The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

  

  Niklas Zennstrom
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Telephone

• Last Words of Advice: If you pay your taxes and don't get into debt and go to bed early and never answer the telephone, no harm can befall you.

  

  Charles Issawi
  • Taxes
  • Bed
  • Debt

• You tempt me to telephone Matron and ask her to let you have the afternoon off.’ He spoke lightly and Sarah felt a surprising regret that he couldn’t possibly mean it. ‘That sort of thing happens in novels, never in real life. I can imagine Matron’s feelings!

  

  Betty Neels
  • Imagine
  • Regret
  • Novels

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

  

  Anna Kavan
  • Dragons
  • Met
  • Telephone

• Telephone operators have called me 'sir' since I was 6.

  

  Suzanne Pleshette
  • Telephone
  • Operators
  • Sir

• Blowers also loaned Duncan thousands of dollars, ... During this period, Blowers had almost daily telephone contacts with his business partner, with Duncan, or both.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Dollars
  • Blowers
  • Business partner

• The Telephone Tour with Noname was a beautiful experience. Because this was only my second tour, I was not quite prepared for the small details that touring entails. I quickly realized how imperative it is to to sleep, eat healthily, and rest my voice.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Experience
  • Because
  • Imperative

• Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Heart
  • Charity
  • Stranger

• One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • America
  • City
  • Telephone

• She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • She
  • Dead
  • Not Answering

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

  

  Niels Diffrient
  • Dinner
  • Telephone
  • Precedence

• Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Eyes
  • Raised
  • No Idea

• Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Teaching

• One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • City
  • Telephone

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