120 Telephone Quotes for You to Enjoy

The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with - or protect - the privacy of their exchange. Ivan Illich

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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. J. F. C. Fuller

War Army World Witness Ending Men Nothing Telephone Battalion Dreadful More Leading Talking Boxes Commander Than Sitting Improvised Place Chain Actual Starting World War

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots. James Stockdale

I had an awkward moment when I got a phone call from the person pretending to be Winnie Mandela. 'Winnie' sounded about 12 years old, unfortunately - she'd probably been pushed to the telephone because she was the only one who spoke English. James Veitch

Phone Old Pretending Telephone Phone Call About Only Pushed Had Spoke She Call Because Got Been Years Person Mandela Unfortunately English Moment Who Awkward

A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions. Janet Reno

Key White Criminal Telephone Pen Collar Stroke Carry Only Steal Computer Pushing He Does White-Collar Billions Street

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days. Jenna Fischer

Crazy Psychic Job First Back Telephone Though Angeles Had Days Answered Got Los Los Angeles Did Newspaper Ad Two

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone. Jesse Eisenberg

Facebook Telephone Criticize

People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar. Joanna Coles

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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. John Burroughs

Wisdom Telegraph Telephone Come Up Automobile Cannot Railroad

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high. John Rhys-Davies

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch. Jose Mourinho

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Before Mountains Air Telephone Television Responsible Computers Rivers Share Protecting Equally Oceans Lines Same Them Us Connect

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' Julian Fellowes

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One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband. Julius Genachowski

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I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then. Kamisese Mara

When I first came to Hollywood, I couldn't afford a telephone. Katharine Ross

First Telephone Came Afford Hollywood

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. Kevin Mitnick

Day Financial Cause Down Telephone Say Hassle Objectives More Results Computer Casualties Hacking Like Access Terrorist Losses Manhattan Really Cyber Therefore Groups Serious Switch Shut

One of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and changing the class of service of a fellow phone phreak. When he'd attempt to make a call from home, he'd get a message telling him to deposit a dime, because the telephone company switch received input that indicated he was calling from a pay phone. Kevin Mitnick

Service Home Class Phone Pay Changing Telephone Input Dime Favorite Telling All-Time Attempt He Fellow Message Make Call Him Calling Because Access Pranks Get Deposit Gaining Company Switch Received

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number. Kinky Friedman

First Telephone Telephone Number Be The First Governor Listed Number

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. LaTanya Richardson

Phones Cell Phones Think Telephone Pick Devices Talk Reducing Text Up Cell Human Just Want Human Beings Who Beings Even Now

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible. Lee Trevino

Telephone Possible Stay Away

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. Les Paul

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