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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
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.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Wireless is freedom. It's about being unleashed from the telephone cord and having the ability to be virtually anywhere when you want to be.
Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.
What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinformation spread by a traitor, Edward Snowden.
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinz? ] Abe met with him in person.
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.
I have a permanent moustache so I can be a 'Movator:' I take random telephone numbers and ring people up and 'movate' them to grow moustaches.
I always feel a bit awkward when it`s time to talk about the K.I.N.D. fund. I don`t want to be one of those guys on a telephone begging you to contribute.
The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.
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.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
I remember if the telephone rang after 9 o'clock in the house, my mother would say, 'Who's ringing at this time?' We just wouldn't answer the phone.
I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #? telephone .
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.
I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.
My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory... He's a spastic.
...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.
Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.
I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
I really only eat burritos in Tijuana from street corners that come out of coolers from businesses with no name, telephone or website.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.
Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!
I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to pick up a telephone to talk - we just text.
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.
It could be a little bit sad as a young girl to sit there and wait in front of the telephone that would never ring.
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
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.
When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.
I first began to realize that it was time to leave my job when the sight of my manager's telephone number on my screen made my heart contract and burn.
