This collection holds 241 telephone quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Sholom Aleichem, Lee Trevino and Martin Cooper.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Gossip is nature's telephone.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

I'm always trying whatever the latest telephone is.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

Telephone operators have called me 'sir' since I was 6.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

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

She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

When I first came to Hollywood, I couldn't afford a telephone.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

I use Postmates more than I use the actual telephone app on my phone.

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

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

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

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

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

You can make a whole album on your telephone, you can make an amazing video too!

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.

I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.

Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.

Telephone operators recognize my voice before I give my name, and say, 'Sock it to Kilpatrick.'

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.

I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.

Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.

It could be a little bit sad as a young girl to sit there and wait in front of the telephone that would never ring.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

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.

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