#telephones

I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business. ↗

— Charles Norris Williamson

#telephones #business

The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful. ↗

— Janice Galloway

#cellphones #phone #phones #telephone #telephones

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all. ↗

— Catherine Coulter

#men #sex #simile #telephones #men

Ah, well! then the young woman was only in advance of the age," said Miss Archer; "and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future! ↗

— Ella Cheever Thayer

#technology #telephones #age

I don't like telephones. ↗

— Marc Bolan

#like #telephones

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american #american taxpayers #billion #businesses #collected

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

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

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. ↗

— John Sununu

#been #business #digital #disrupted #distribution

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#designed #luxury #owned #people #tax