Telephone Quotations

The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.

I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship.

I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience.

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

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

You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.

I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

I had such a tie with my eyes and my hands. I could look at a telephone pole 40 yards away, take out a 7-iron, and hit it 10 times in a row. I had something special. And somehow, I really understood the game, all without having a lot of guidance.

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance.

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

When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees.

One of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and changing the class of service of a fellow phone phreak. When he'd attempt to make a call from home, he'd get a message telling him to deposit a dime, because the telephone company switch received input that indicated he was calling from a pay phone.

The other possibility is that there have been several appeals to the public for information. Police, within just a few days of making this public appeal, got more than 1,300 telephone calls from the public.

We've already built a critical mass for telephone customers very quickly, ... The evidence that we've seen on our Internet site shows that we can grow the business quickly by restricting future customer access to Internet access.

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

We've basically done away with 1,600 telephone numbers. So, you call a central location, 311. All the information is here,

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

We remove all illegal sign encroachments as we are made aware of them. That also includes signs posted on telephone poles, since most poles are on right-of-way.

We know his name, address and telephone number.

We'll be contacting each other by telephone in the near future.

With women, clearly the telephone occupies a special place in the family communication arsenal.

The extremely low level of organ donation in Australia is leaving hundreds of people young and old living on the edge for an average of four years with their lives on hold while waiting for a telephone call for a kidney transplant.

The process included both qualitative research and a formal quantitative telephone survey of Mighty Ducks season ticket holders. While there was support for keeping the current name, the majority of those surveyed, nearly two-thirds, supported some sort of name change.

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

This proposal is in line with Earthlink's belief in open access, providing broadband connections for businesses, governments, and consumers that are underserved by cable and telephone operators.

The provisions will not stop the cable and telephone companies from degrading Internet traffic and they do not contain strong enough penalties to discourage misbehavior.

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

Last year when we had a big snow storm in January we were seeing some days with a 15 per cent increase in phone calls, telephone claims.

Oh, yeah, the guys played great today. I felt their energy. And when I made the telephone call and I didn't get the answering machine; I got them.

Simply to say that broadband as broadband, whatever that might be, has to pay into USF would be an error, but the telephone service portion of that certainly should pay into USF.

One of my friends said almost nothing is left. Buildings are down, electricity is gone. Telephone lines are down and rain is pouring in and hundreds of people are lying dead and nobody's there to bury them.

Of course, the other side of the coin was so many telephone calls, people wanting to know basic tax data.

One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.

Now, they must go for market-share stability, because the local telephone companies ... are coming into this market, perhaps in a year or so.

People who want to make a donation or contribute to a cause should actively seek out reputable organizations and then contact them by telephone or by typing their Web address into a Web browser. The important point is that they initiate this contact on their own.

One thing that hampers all sides in the debate is the extent to which information about telephone charges is relatively opaque, ... Many state and local governments are transparent, but some are not. The federal government actually has the least transparency.

I would call him a friend, even if we don't telephone each other daily.

I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became a shared resource for the whole apartment complex. People would come and knock on the door and ask to call their family in another city.

I do not think any person's telephone conversations should be monitored. Everyone should have the right to communicate without fear.

I am alarmed by reports that data brokers are obtaining and selling customers' personal telephone records without the customers' consent or knowledge. These records can include some of the most private personal information about an individual. Finding out who people are calling and for how long can be like picking someone's brain about their friends, plans or business dealings.

Cell phones, to me, are a joke. When we grew up we had a party line for six homes, meaning you had to wait for everyone else from the other five homes to be off the line before you could make a call. You know what? Society seemed to get along fine. When you got your own telephone land line, it was like you were a wealthy person.

But special factors, such as a reduction in fixed telephone fees, kept the growth down to 0.1 percent.

Because we are a small business, we know the value of personal attention specialized to meet unique communication needs. We know you don't get that kind of attention or service from larger telephone companies.

I firmly believe people are overpaying for local telephone service by $8 billion to $15 billion.

If India would have allowed telephone links, people-to-people contacts, it would have given a boost to the peace process.

I can't say I knew very much about the magazine, ... I've had lots of telephone interviews with magazines... I don't have to agree with their views.

Get the lead and help the customer move forward in their purchase decision. Convert the customer shopping online into a referral, the referral into a telephone conversation, the conversation into an appointment and the appointment into a sale.

I ended up getting her sister's name and telephone number out of her.

I got a sweet little telephone call from my director to the general effect that we can't fall behind in our schedule... I had to go-and leave behind me all the pleasures of a snow-white bed, and candy and flowers, and the other lovely things that make illness a positive privilege.

He has my telephone number. The citizens of Largo have my phone number. He could pick up the phone and talk man to man. The best way to apologize is to do so personally.

He goes in right behind him and uses a PIT maneuver, precision immobilization technique, pins the vehicle against the telephone pole.

To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibly time-consuming, ... Every scene for me is about, where am I going to park the cane? When I pick this up, where am I going to put the cane? That's a physical constraint.

What we have now is terrible. Just a thin telephone wire with a speaker phone attached to it.

He was prepared to cooperate and provide the relevant telephone numbers and information about supervisors and any individual who American Airlines wanted or the pilot wanted to confirm that he was a Secret Service agent.

Has the Canadian economy and its' workforce been elevated? Are they being asked to do more? This is what we wanted to know. Eighty-six per cent said yes, absolutely'; employees are doing things they never had to do before . . . these same people told us they need the right tools and that they can't just use a telephone and desktop software anymore.

Journalism is based on a code of conduct and professional ethics that clearly exclude telephone espionage but the concept of express permission of the parties could be used unfairly against the media if, for example, a source later retracts.

I swear I seen Kobe run into a telephone booth, take off his Laker uniform and put on a Superman suit real quick before he went to work. There's no words to express the emotions that I was feeling.

It could be a barrier for people to get basic telephone service - and that's a problem.

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

It is important to take stock of where we are in 2006. In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of recreating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.

It is an absolute disgrace. You can't bug anyone's telephone without a warrant, which is express written consent personally signed by the Home Secretary. Why should you have less protection over the Internet?

Over recent years, rural communication development made great progress, as more than 40,000 administrative villages have telephones. The use of telephone will help farmers broaden horizon and have easy access to information,

Our strategy for CPG is to focus on e-business and building block products for the edge, where the Internet meets the public switched telephone network,

Outside of the major urban areas in this state, there is not a robust competitive marketplace from wireless, cable or municipal telephone utilities.

Physicians avoid telephone calls and often refuse to communicate with patients by e-mail because they do not get paid for these types of consultations.

People need to deal with international colleagues and if you know an individual and you can remember his face during a telephone discussion, that's a useful side effect.

My telephone rings a lot less than it did when I was in the office. You don't know how busy you are until you're not as busy. I've had a chance to relax and spend time with the family. And I haven't had that much time in a long time.

My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.

It is certainly more of an incentive to bundle. It makes sense to keep the price the same. To say that you are under $100 (for cable, telephone and Internet) is pretty significant.

Manufacturers are beginning to recognize the fact that toll-free telephone support is extremely expensive. The trend in the industry is to get away from expensive telephone support and make investments in online support.

The aim of speaker verification technology is to enhance the privacy and security of the telephone self-service channel.

You'll notice that the program interface resembles a telephone with a video screen attached to it. The keys on the telephone can be tapped with the mouse. It's designed to be user-friendly.

We hope it increases public awareness of what the telephone companies are trying to achieve.

We exchanged photographs three months later and in January I went to Vegas for some temp attorney work, to play some poker and meet Jackie. The day before we met, we actually spoke on the telephone for the first time. I knew we had a connection, but didn't know where it would go. I'd never met anyone on the Internet before, let alone on a poker site. We only used IM for such a long time, but I felt the closeness between us.

We've had many, many positive reactions ? surprisingly positive. The emails are coming from Alberta, from Toronto. Here is one from Environment Canada. I've had many telephone calls. My wife, she has been out in town today and she's got positive reactions.

We're working hard to use our network advantages to build strong customer relationships. We'll continue to aggressively roll out telephone service to make the three-product bundle available in a majority of our footprint, and we're on track to offer telephone service to between six million and eight million homes by year end.

We are disappointed but not surprised that the committee voted to turn over the future of the Internet to the telephone and cable industry. Neither of those two sectors contributed to the creative development of the Internet, and neither is known for innovation. They are known for their desire to control what goes over their networks.

We know that AT&T is upgrading their TCI network to provide voice services, but we believe that upgrade will go beyond that, for total interactivity at very reliable rates, ... Video telephone calls, downloading music videos, television broadcasts, online newspapers -- all of this would be in digital mode. I think they certainly intend to be the one-stop shop and once they do that, it will force the other multiple system operators to follow suit.

We'll get the $45,000 with five or six telephone calls. If it comes to that, that's what we'll do.

You have telephone operators girding themselves to take on the cable operators, and at this point there's no way they can take advantage of scale unless they invest in their networks.

We are pleased that leading technologies such as JobFlash's unique and widely used telephone application system are now exposed and leveraged through integration using HR-XML's open standards, ... More and more, HR decision-makers are making compliance with open standards part of the criteria they use when procuring HR solutions.

We relied on runners and ambulance crews passing on information as they dropped patients off. When the last telephone call you receive said eight bombs have gone off, it sounded like Armageddon.

This nationwide telephone number will provide callers expanded services and hours and the opportunity to speak with an actual person, ... With all that displaced families are going through starting to rebuild their lives, the last thing they need to encounter is an answering machine without answers. We have increased our staffing at the National Servicing Call Center in Oklahoma, and we currently have the capacity to handle 15,000 calls daily.

We're doing site-prep work now. Some of the things like making sure there's adequate communications, things like telephone lines, computer lines, getting our servers to go in there. All of that kind stuff has to be accomplished now, prior to large-scale populations of employees going in beginning in June.

We basically want to provide the Internet with the kind of reliability people are accustomed to seeing in their telephone network,

The conventional Internet naming system of URLs (Web addresses) can be clumsy and time-consuming for users on devices that have access to the Net via a telephone keypad,

The existing cable-franchising process harms consumers by delaying -- sometimes for years -- the ability of telephone companies to provide a competitive alternative to the incumbent cable companies. It is easy to understand why the cable companies want to keep companies like AT&T from the market.

What it means is you've got two players, two big market players ? cable and telephone companies ? controlling right now the primary two types of broadband service into the home.