Telephones Quotes

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  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

  Men, Able, He Man

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• The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Giving, Together

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Humorous, Drinking, Memorable

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• The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Nuisance, Convenience

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• Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

  Peter Arno

  Dream, Humorous, Struggle

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• Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

  Doug Larson

  Work, Two, Luxury

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

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Cities, America, One Day

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• 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

  Skills, Facts, Advantage

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• The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.

  Mitch Albom

  Baby, Couple, Night

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• You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Discipline, Trying

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• I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Mercy

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• If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Technology, Want, Firsts

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• People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Being Alone, People, Together

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Distance, Technology, Devil

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

  Fred Couples

  Humorous, Phones, Feelings

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• To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Thinking, Voice, Sound

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Spiritual, Determination

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• I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

  Mark Twain

  Together, May, Bliss

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• We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Lonely, Nature, Wind

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• An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Use, Want, Invention

  "Obama Energy Policy Speech: President Dismisses Republican Critics On Oil Drilling". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

  Henry Miller

  Hate, Writing, Letters

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• Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Distance, Technology, Giving

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

  Robert Breault

  Clever, Past, Ideas

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• Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

  Barack Obama

  Nsa, Listening, Surveillance

  "'Nobody is listening to your calls': Obama's evolution on NSA surveillance" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2013.

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