Quotes about telephone
A collection of quotes on the topic of telephone, people, likeness, use.
Quotes about telephone

Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)

Recalling his meeting with workers in a field, upon his landing, as quoted in "Life on Mars?" by Jesse Skinner in Toro magazine (14 October 2008) http://www.toromagazine.com/epigraph/d8e350a4-e3e5-2b94-5916-3c4e788b808c/Life-on-Mars/index.html

“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”
Source: On Love

As quoted in They Say the Blind Should Not Lead the Blind. She Proves Them Wrong. https://www.thebetterindia.com/40485/tiffany-brar-working-for-blind/ (December 22, 2015) by Ranjini Sivaswamy, The Better India.

that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
Letter to Helen Keller, after she had been accused of plagiarism for one of her early stories (17 March 1903), published in Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 1 (1917) edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, p. 731

On the Wardenclyffe Tower, in "The Future of the Wireless Art" in Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony (1908)

On the court's lack of authority regarding the right to die: Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 261 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=497&invol=261&friend=oyez (1990) (concurring).
1990s
Digerati: Encounters With the Cyber Elite, (1996), ed. by John Brockman

On his homepage http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that, Bjarne Stroustrup states that he did say the above sentence, but also adds "I very much doubt that the sentiment is original." Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
“Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!”
Source: A Kiss in Time

Source: Stop in the Name of Pants!

“If Aphrodite is angry, she might make you fall in love with a toy poodle, or a telephone pole.”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 122, cited in: Jorge Reina Schement, Brent D. Ruben (1993) Information and Behavior - Volume 4. p. 517
Robert A. Solo (1994) " Kenneth Ewart Boulding: 1910-1993. An Appreciation http://www.jstor.org/stable/4226892" commented: "The image appears as crucial in Boulding's treatment of societal evolution. Here the record is in human artifacts, not only in material structures such as buildings and machines, telephones and radios, but also in organizations including the extended family, the tribe, the nation, and the corporation. All such artifacts originate in and are sustained by images in the human mind. Civilization and civilized man, in the language that he knows, the skills he acquires, the whole heritage of tradition and manners he has learned, are human artifacts."

“The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.”
Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment. (1983), MIT Press, p. 61

Speech, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mariosaviosproulhallsitin.htm Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley (1964-12-02).

Personism: A Manifesto, from The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1972).

A reporter who thinks objective journalism is a synonym for government mouthpiece http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/02/INGRU2KJHA1.DTL, November 2, 2003
2003

He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the back of the patrol car."
Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Tonight's the Night
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)

Source: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 9, The Digital Divide in a Global Perspective, p. 247

Source: Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic (1995), p. 1-2.

America and Cosmic Man (New York: Doubleday, [1948] 1949) p. 21.

Banana Pancakes.
Song lyrics, In Between Dreams (2005)
"Perfect Knowledge in Final Things" (p. 108)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
Source: The Rag and Bone Shop (2000), p. 149

CHALLENGE: Diagnosis of Our Times
The Conduct Of Life (1951)

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 106
"Baseball : Joys and Lamentations", p. 309; originally published in The New York Review of Books (1993-11-04)
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville (2003)

“The New Music”, opening
Great Days (1979)

Source: 1910's, The Art of Noise', 1913, p. 8

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
The House in Paris (1935)

Interview in Cardiff, Wales, UK on March 11, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93W8II_R75Y
Quotes 2010s, 2011

Prime Minister's Questions http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-06-29/Orals-2.html, 29 June, 1995.
It was rumoured that Cabinet member Michael Portillo had installed telephone lines in the event of his standing in the Conservative leadership election.
1990s, 1995
"Keynsianism Again: Interview with Lawrence Klein", Challenge (May-June 2001)

Press Briefing, referring to the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, February 12, 2008 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/02/on-cusp-of-sena/ http://mediamatters.org/blog/200802130006

On the facilities provided in Berlin Olympics in page=55
Quote, India and the Olympics
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

"Will Mankind Destroy Itself?" http://bigthink.com/videos/will-mankind-destroy-itself (29 September 2010)

Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1931 - 1940, My Pictorial Struggle', S. Dali, 1935, Chapter: 'My Pictorial Struggle', pp. 15-16

It's Going to Take Some Time, co-written with Toni Stern
Song lyrics, Music (1971)

Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires TV program (1996) http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part1.html

" Galloway v the US Senate: transcript of statement http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616578,00.html", The Times, May 18, 2005
Testimony before the US Senate on May 17, 2005.

"Fire and Rain"
Song lyrics, Sweet Baby James (1970)
“Uneasy lies the head that ignores a telephone call late at night.”
The Business of Life (1949)

Telephone message from the Oval office to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. (20 July 1969)
1960s

“Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.”
March 23, 1995, p. 81
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Tears came into my eyes that at such a tragic moment, my race still could sing its hope and faith.
Interview in Playboy (January 1965) https://web.archive.org/web/20080706183244/http://www.playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/mlk/04.html
1960s

Thunder on the Right
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): Daar heb je weer de telefoon, de motor de machines [ van de drukkerij] die met hun geluiden je roepen, die mensen die met hun orders en standjes vereeren en plagen, de chefs die vragen, de wissels die betaald moeten worden, de rente die je noodzaakt tot werken.
Quote of Hendrik Werkman, c. 1920's; as cited by Martin Werkman, in Pakketten voor Dames, quoted by Doeke Sijens in H. N. Werkman - Leven & Werk - 1882-1945, ed. A. de Vries, J. van der Spek, D. Sijens, M. Jansen; WBooks, Groninger Museum / Stichting Werkman, 2015 (transl: Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 35
1920's

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1987/dec/01/elimination-of-poverty-in-old-age-etc in the House of Commons (1 December 1987).
1980s

“The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.”
Source: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
second side of the first tape
1975 - 1992, Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell, 1986
Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 11, Identity Crisis, p. 215
A Short History of the World (2000)

Hal R. Varian, Part I. "Competition and market power", in The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction (2004) by Hal R.Varian, Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro

About workers with accents. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/maine-gov-paul-lepage-mocks-immigrant-workers-speech-article-1.2613543 (April 25, 2016)
Source: The Face (2003), Chapter 13; describing the estate's elaborate phone system
Part One, One
The Dud Avocado (1958)
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 21, The system of Networks, p. 286

1960s, State of the Union Address (1966)