#telephone

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

#again #built #ceased #death #fortress

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#existence #got #i #just #make

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#good #good way #having #offer #people

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

#back #became #business #had #headquarters

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone. ↗

— Ryan White

#battles #began #classes #court #i

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#announced #call #dreaded #every #go

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#center #computer #computers #computing #drive

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#book #did #dropped #end #going

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#easy #four #guess #hard #life

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything. ↗

— Will Oldham

#down #faraway #go #i #movie