“ I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. ”
- Bjarne Stronstrup- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? ”
- Spike Milligan- Copy
- 353
“ Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye. ”
- Jean Kerr- Copy
- 314
“ A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone. ”
- Craig Kilborn- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half-especially if he has a teenage daughter. ”
- Guy Lombardo- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. ”
- Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch. ”
- Scott McNealy- Copy
- 1.9K
“ People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. ”
- Chuck Palahniuk- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 967
“ Unlike any viral or bacterial illness, fear can be caught over the telephone, from reading newspapers, or from watching television. ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. ”
- William F. Buckley Jr.- Copy
- 909
“ Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 741
“ The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. ”
- Sir William Preece- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody. ”
- Oliver North- Copy
- 875
“ Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3K
“ Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ”
- Evelyn Hendrickson- Copy
- 2K
“ I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. ”
- Fred Couples- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.". ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 2K
“ The telegraph office eventually moved over to Mrs. Hall's Cafe (on Front Street). It wasn't there long because they got a phone line. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. ”
- Richard Armour- Copy
- 750
“ Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
- 841
“ If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
- 813
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