#telephone

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970. ↗

— John McGahern

#ago #came #come #community #electricity

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#because #both #instance #liked #lot

I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#bill clinton #buddhist #calls #clinton #does

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#breakfast #colonel #come #elvis #five

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#bit #else #email #emails #everything

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#early #enamored #great #his #honor

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#chins #directory #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #more

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#college #college students #drink #least #month

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#breakthrough #buy #communications #compelling #computer

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

— Joseph P. Kennedy

#business #get #gold #industry #into