Telephone Operator

Telephone operator may refer to:

  • Switchboard operator, a person who provides assistance to a telephone caller
  • Telephone company, one that offers telephone services to subscribers
  • Telephone Operator (film), a 1937 film

Famous quotes containing the words telephone operator and/or telephone:

    “It’s a hard feeling when everyone’s in a hurry to talk to somebody else, but not to talk to you. Sometimes you get a feeling of need to talk to somebody. Somebody who wants to listen to you other than “Why didn’t you get me the right number?””
    —Heather Lamb, U.S. telephone operator. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)

    “The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.”
    —Howard Brenton (b. 1942)