The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia. '
The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.
I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every waking hour beside a telephone waiting for it to ring.
The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.
There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.