#phones

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

Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself 'what a prick.' Nowadays, an eyebrow hardly even flutters when we see a ten-year-old child happily texting away. You probably wouldn't notice anyway; you'd be too busy downloading an app that could definitively pinpoint who it was that had just farted in your tube carriage. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#children #humor #society #technology #business

The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful. ↗

— Janice Galloway

#cellphones #phone #phones #telephone #telephones

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

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all. ↗

— Catherine Coulter

#men #sex #simile #telephones #men

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones. ↗

— Evan Davis

#britain #cars #chips #defense #designing

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#anywhere #between #blur #cell #cell phones

Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#bedroom #doing #fun #going #got

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#began #coleman #first #hawkins #i

Ah, well! then the young woman was only in advance of the age," said Miss Archer; "and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future! ↗

— Ella Cheever Thayer

#technology #telephones #age