If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.
I have a hold limit that I've set for myself. I hold until I start to imagine myself killing the person on the other end. Then I hang up and regroup.
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
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.
In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.
I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show.
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.
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.
If you want to communicate, use the telephone
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.