What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.
In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.
I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.
Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out.
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.
There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone.
Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.