#telephone

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#contain #facts #full #idea #single

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cable #distance #facilities #gives #lessen

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. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#directory #entrust #faculty #first #government

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#high-tech #how #improve #just #lives

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

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. ↗

— Ilka Chase

#best #buy #call #man #phone call

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

— Kinky Friedman

#first #governor #i #listed #number

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#communication #created #development #intellectual #interdependence

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

#both #conversation #disagree #finding #nonsensical

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone. ↗

— Julie London

#anything #build #difficult #difficult things #i