You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.
You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!
J. D. cleared his throat and pushed the button on the intercom. “Uh, Payton, hi. It’s J. D. ” Dead silence. Then another crackle. “Sorry. Not interested. ” Cute. But J. D. persisted. Again with the button. “I want to talk to you. ” Crackle. “Ever hear of a telephone, asshole?” Okay, he probably deserved that.
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
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. '
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
Ever hear of a telephone, asshole?
Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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.
If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.
I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.
I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?