Telephone Calls

Famous quotes containing the words telephone and/or calls:

“The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The cigar-box which the European calls a “lift” needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the man’s patent purge—it works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)