Quotes with telephone

  • Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

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  • Ilka Chase America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
    Ilka Chase
    American actress, radio host, and novelist (1900 - 1978)
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  • Donald Sinden An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
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  • Bradley Whitford Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Andy Rooney I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Richard Armour I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
    Richard Armour
    American poet and author (1906 - 1989)
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  • Barry Levinson It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Ray Bradbury 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.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Cole Porter My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
    Cole Porter
    American composer and songwriter (1891 - 1964)
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  • Alan Turing No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Edwin Way Teale The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
    New York Times Magazine Now Parkinsons Telephone Law, 12 April 1964
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • A. N. Wilson There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Doug Larson Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bob Graham With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Sholem Aleichem Gossip is nature's telephone.
    Sholem Aleichem
    Yiddish author and playwright (1859 - 1916)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Telephone. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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