#telephone

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#college #college students #drink #least #month

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#degree #dial #does #everybody #find

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#breakthrough #buy #communications #compelling #computer

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry. ↗

— Joseph P. Kennedy

#business #get #gold #industry #into

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#concrete #description #details #dreamed #enables

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. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#communicate #communication #computers #even #find

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know. ↗

— William Scranton

#beyond #call #clock #down #eight

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. ↗

— Donald Sinden

#actor #business #directory #his #knows

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. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anybody #anymore #back #call #calls