I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of my life. After innumerable failures I finally uncovered the principle for which I was...

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

A telephone cord used to make an excellent leash on people. Now metal chains work better.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone.

Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half...

As to Bell’s talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but … its commercial value will be limited.

The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth’s crust....

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

Gossip is nature’s telephone.

She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.