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Quotes About Telephone

In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.
~ Jean Hersey
Time plays tricks between here and home, " said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
~ Garth Nix, Abhorsen
Three times! Three dull blows at Betsy's heart. He must have 'phoned her twice before he came over to the Rays, and probably once after he left. She couldn't remember that Tony had ever 'phoned her. He wasn't a telephone addict as some of the boys and most of the girls were.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
And just as Betsy came up the telephone bell inside the kitchen rang. Two long and three short rings, the Taggarts' call.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
He telephoned half an hour ago. Mr. Gail Wynand.
~ Ayn Rand
A GENERATION AGO, ALL UTILITIES WERE REGULATED MONOPOLIES. Consumers didn't have to make decisions about who was going to provide telephone or electric service.
~ Barry Schwartz
Let's suppose that you want to say, I am a jerk. IN the 18th century, you would have to go around person to person and utter the phrase individually to each one of them. However, here in the third millennium, with our advances in telephone communication, it is possible to say I am a jerk to a thousand people at a time by forgetting to turn off your cell phone and having it ring during a performance of Death of a Salesman.
~ Steve Martin
When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn't want it showing up on the bill.
~ Ari Graynor
You tempt me to telephone Matron and ask her to let you have the afternoon off.' He spoke lightly and Sarah felt a surprising regret that he couldn't possibly mean it. 'That sort of thing happens in novels, never in real life. I can imagine Matron's feelings!
~ Betty Neels
Once more Jane sat staring at the telephone. This time she was filled with a confidence that was new to her. Stan Crandall. Stanley Crandall. He liked her! He had seen her once, and even though had been rumpled and grass-stained and having a terrible time with Sandra, he liked her well enough to go to the trouble of finding out her name and calling to ask her to go to the movies. Jane smiled at the telephone and gave a sigh of happiness
~ Beverly Cleary
That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy
~ Beverly Cleary
The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.
~ Bill DeWitt
I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
~ Carlo Rubbia
letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.
~ Virginia Woolf
Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.
~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.
~ Michael Scanlon
Gossip is nature's telephone.
~ Sholom Aleichem
up. A singsong voice said, "At the sound of the tone, General Telephone time will be twelve o'clock, exactly." I burst out laughing and Althea looked at me.
~ Sue Grafton
If you are supposed to telephone the client, remember that your relationship starts when she answers the phone. Be professional and concerned but remember that the purpose of the call is not to do therapy over the telephone but to arrange a mutually convenient time when you can meet face-to-face. The client may be anxious; however, do not assume that you know what that anxiety is about. Also remember that asking for help is not an easy thing to do.
~ Susan Lukas
To have visitors during a Day in Bed is a grave error. It means getting out to do your hair, make up your face, and have your bed made. A little talk on the telephone with some sympathetic friend who is really interested in your symptoms is the only social intercourse that should be allowed. A good deal of pleasure can be derived from asking for your fountain-pen and notepaper, and then not writing any letters.
~ Joyce Dennys
The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met. You've met God? Certainly. I telephone Him every night.
~ Haruki Murakami
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
~ Paul Auster
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
~ James Thurber
To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.
~ Kenny Loggins