Telephones Quotes - Page 13

• Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I'm talking to. Is that too odd for you?

  Nicholson Baker

  Thinking, Talking, Rooms

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• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  Bruce Jenner

  Wrong Number, Two, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
  A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
  A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
  A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

  William Watson Purkey

  Education, Jobs, School

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• 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.

  Eric Allman

  Technology, People, Want

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• I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

  Jenna Fischer

  Jobs, Crazy, Psychics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

  Abel Ferrara

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Want

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

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• They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Names, Numbers

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• The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

  Marlon Brando

  Military, Gun, Men

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• I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Relationship, Hate, Giving

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.80, Penguin

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• 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

  Taken, Thinking, Car

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• Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

  Hu Jintao

  Office, Effort, Growth

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.

  Sam the Sham

  Revenge, Names, Today

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• 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.

  Alexander Kluge

  People, Details, Looks

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• Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

  Charles C. Mann

  Home, Light, Long

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• Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

  Peter Welch

  Night, Years, People

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• We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Numbers, People, World

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• People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

  David Hockney

  Drawing, People, Village

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• Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mma, Two, White

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

  Elie Abel

  Matter, Facts, Modern

  Elie Abel (1968). “The Missile Crisis”

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• I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

  Stephen Daldry

  Morning, Wake Up, Costumes

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• I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

  Julie London

  Thinking, Order, Together

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• In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Order, Ideas, Rivers

  "In the Air" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2008.

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• We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

  Winston Churchill

  Knowledge, Science, Years

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• All alone by the telephone.

  Irving Berlin

  Solitude, All Alone

  Song: All Alone

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• Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.

  Carson Daly

  Kids, Games, Firsts

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