#phone

The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#life #mobile #phone #technology #business

I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business. ↗

— Charles Norris Williamson

#telephones #business

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death. ↗

— Walter Burkert

#hades #life #mythology #persephone #underworld

I would have used the telephone on the Shabbat even though it's forbidden, and God wouldn't have held it against me because he's probably on my side in this affair. ↗

— Barbara Honigmann

#shabbat #telephone #love

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#anyone #basically #broadband #calls #doing

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

— Carlos Drummond de Andrade

#difficult #easy #heart #know #loved

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#around #bill #came #close #glenn

The less there is of a phone, the more I like it. ↗

— Niels Diffrient

#less #like #more #phone

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#cameraman #capturing #into #news #phone

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. ↗

— Stan Getz

#human #human voice #instrument #like #play