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Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
I don't like telephones. -- Marc Bolan
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. -- Thabo Mbeki
Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid! -- Harold H. Greene
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. -- Ogden Nash
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. -- Fran Lebowitz
Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you. -- Robert Breault
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you." -- Alexander Graham Bell
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none. -- Doug Larson
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. -- Brent Musburger
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. -- Ambrose Bierce
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. -- Ogden Nash
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. -- Guy Lombardo
I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths. -- Sam the Sham
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking. -- Alexander Graham Bell
Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart. -- Richard Turner
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
The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument. -- Alexander Graham Bell
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. -- Alan Turing
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. -- John Sununu
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. -- Sylvia Plath
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out. -- Stephen King
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. -- Mark Twain
Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year." -- Mike Fitzpatrick
I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you. -- Sam Crawford
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there. -- Abel Ferrara
I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. -- Douglas Coupland
I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast. -- Sunil Mittal
We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices. -- Howard Rheingold
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything. -- Will Oldham
Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones. -- Janet Fitch
I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense. -- Avicii
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me. -- Kara Swisher
When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone. -- Shashi Tharoor
Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show. -- Kate Bush
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. -- Brian Eno
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones. -- Douglas Adams
... ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ... -- Alfonsina Storni
First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel. -- Lady Violet
Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today. -- William J. Clinton
Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe. -- Wyndham Lewis
In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb. -- George Gilder
I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape. -- Cornelia Funke
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call. -- Nicholas Negroponte
We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing. -- Martin Cooper
[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images. -- Sam Abell
I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder. -- John Cheever
It is really really important that you deal with Trump either by letter or by personal contact. Trying to deal with him on telephones or through the media is not a good idea. -- Michael Kergin
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision. -- Anais Nin
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer. -- Douglas Adams

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