The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.
Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
Invest in learning and discovering new filmmaking techniques is the next keystone to success. Film is changing rapidly right now. The last big change was the introduction of sound. This time around it is movies on th internet and mobile telephones.
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.
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons.
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia. '
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
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.
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.
Happiness is a house without a telephone.
I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.