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• An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

  Donald Sinden

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

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• If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Brain, Mind, Wells

  Man on his nature

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• There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

  Tom Clancy

  Technology, People, Nails

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Science, Ideas

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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• Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.

  Alan Coren

  Simple, Discovery, People

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.126, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Goes On

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• Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it for Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City, but it is probably appropriate that I don't own this song. Just the other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, New York, Men

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• If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.

  George Will

  Reading, Organization, Government

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• Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out.

  Alfonsina Storni

  Suicidal, Gone, Use

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• I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.

  Robert Lowell

  Depression, Bipolar, Want

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Dream, Children, Believe

  "The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

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• 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

  Dream, Numbers, Want

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• And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

  Alan Furst

  Army, Europe, Greek

  Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House

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• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

  Book, Heart, Easy

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• Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

  Studs Terkel

  Phones, Government, Gone

  "More NSA Legal Actions", www.wired.com. May 22, 2006.

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• It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Communication, Winning, Simple

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• When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Space, Moscow, Saws

  "The Evolution Of The Spacesuit" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. October 24, 2011.

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• The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.

  John Banville

  Baby, Mad, Attention

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• 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.

  Rosalind Russell

  My Best Friend, Littles, Suits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Ocean, Rivers, Air

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• I rarely use the telephone because he may not want to see me. I have a better chance of seeing the man I want to see if I do go. Besides, switchboard girls and secretaries have become very good. They've learned to take you apart. 'Who? Why? What for? What company?' You don't always get by. I seldom call on the phone. I'd rather go.

  Ben Feldman

  Girl, Men, Phones

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• Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

  Florence King

  Exercise, Golf, People

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• Gossip is nature's telephone.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Nature, Gossip

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

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, Ideas, Facts

  Mortimer Jerome Adler, Geraldine Van Doren (1988). “Reforming education: the opening of the American mind”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Christmas, Phones, Doubt

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.132, Verso

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