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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone.
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.
I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinzō ] Abe met with him in person.
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the telephone works both ways ((You and I Both))
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
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.
I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.
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.
I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
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.
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.
The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
I have a hold limit that I've set for myself. I hold until I start to imagine myself killing the person on the other end. Then I hang up and regroup.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.
Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.