[an anonymous caller has telephoned Gittes] Ida Sessions: Are you alone? Jake Gittes: Isn't everybody?
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.
I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waitin...
Withnail: [in a telephone box, speaking to his agent] Listen, I pay you 10 percent to do that. Well, lick 10 percent of the arses for me, then! Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? How DARE you! [he slams the phone down] Withnail: Fuck you! [he steps out of t...
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they ...
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
