Telephones Quotes - Page 9

• In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'

  Eugene Mirman

  Dirty, Talking, Funny Graduation

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• Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your cordless phone, your telephone plan is suited to your needs, and your various gizmos interact without conflict. Your spouse is athletic, your kids are bright, your job is rewarding, your promotions are inevitable, everywhere you need to be comes with its own accessible parking. You look great in casual slacks.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, Kids, Phones

  David Brooks (2004). “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.

  Clive James

  America, Looks, World

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.

  Damon Knight

  Wall, Glasses, Giving

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• Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

  Esther Williams

  Business, Vegas, Use

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• The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Dirty, Naughty, Secret

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• Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.

  James Adams

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.

  William J. Clinton

  Goal, Connections, Today

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.172, Best Books on

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• We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Lonely, Should Have, Wind

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• The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

  Crystal Eastman

  Ignorance, Men, Average

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

  Sam Ewing

  Names

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• The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

  Bruce Chatwin

  Running, Children, Book

  Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.11, Penguin

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• If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

  Tim Wu

  Swings, Opposites, Age

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• In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.  this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.  My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.  Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Silly, Eye, Long Ago

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin

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• The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

  Anais Nin

  Voice, Vision, Poverty

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• Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Nuclear, Cloning

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Cells, Care

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• During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Airports, Library, United States

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• An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed and Two Noughts, a third of which was a homage to Vermeer. Conceivably, if you are a list-enthusiast like me, the New York telephone directory might be fascinating, demographically, geographically, historically, typographically, cartographically; but I am sure no compliment was intended.

  Peter Greenaway

  New York, Two, Vermeer

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• As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.

  Martin Cooper

  New York, Moving, Phones

  "The day the mobile phone went public 38 years ago, leaving New Yorkers bemused and bewildered" by Graham Smith, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 5, 2011.

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• We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.

  Martin Cooper

  Phones, Years, Ideas

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• What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

  Bunker Roy

  Television, World, Today

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• The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Smile, Children, Glasses

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• The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter.  In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.

  Nick Bantock

  Country, Stars, Needs

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• I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

  Richard Armour

  Armour, Known, Hang Ups

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