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)

    “But even in a telephone booth
    evil can seep out of the receiver
    and we must cover it with a mattress,
    and then tear it from its roots
    and bury it,
    bury it.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)