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telephone
«The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.»
Author: Clifford Stoll
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
gotten, internet, telephone, telephones, telephone system, The Internet, uppity
«The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him»
Author: Crystal Eastman
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
cheerful, crumb, crumbs, cultivated, grocer, household, inefficiency, protects, telephone, telephone number
«The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.»
Author: Edwin Way Teale
| Keywords:
plus, spider, spider web, telephone, telephone wire, The Spider, utility, wires
«They can rattle off the Manhattan telephone directory unerringly time after time, which no human can do, but they cannot begin to distinguish one face from another, as babies can do»
Author: Lee Dembart
| Keywords:
directory, distinguish, rattle, rattle off, telephone, telephone directory, Time After Time, unerringly
«The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.»
Author: Mortimer Adler
(Editor, Educator, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
contain, telephone, telephones, telephone book
«They (wives) are people who think when the telephone bell rings, it is against the law not to answer it»
«Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
| About:
Sisters
| Keywords:
down the stairs, drying, importunate, locked, rooms, shoulders, sisters, stair, telephone, The Mirror
«Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Inventions,
Technology
| Keywords:
abrogate, abrogates, advantages, disagreeable, disagreeable person, telephone
«People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
calling together, close together, hated, scared, telephone, telephones, telephone call