Telephones – Quotes

Anyone could write a

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. Evelyn Waugh

You know, it’s not a given that there is an ‘online’ and ‘offline’ world out there. When you use the telephone, you don’t say that I’m entering some ‘telephono-sphere.’ You don’t say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem. Evgeny Morozov

If you don’t have

If you don’t have an idea that materializes and changes a person’s life, then what have you got? You have talk, research, telephone calls, meetings, but you don’t have a change in the community. Eunice Kennedy Shriver

In this time of

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.’ Eugene Mirman

I may have been

I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone … Read more

I believe the alphabet

I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned Now I lay me and the Lord’s Prayer and your father’s and mother’s name and … Read more

Howard Hughes himself was

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone. Esther Williams

[Some people] put their

[Some people] put their work on the internet and check every day how many people look, how many people made contact, but I don’t have internet, I don’t have a hand-phone, I don’t have fax, I don’t have email. I just have old-fashioned telephone and letters. Erro

The telephone and visitors

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers. Ernest Hemingway

One son appears in

One son appears in stereo – a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other. Erma Bombeck