What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.
In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 911, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia. '