T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy”
Source: Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991
“Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....”
Source: The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
“Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.”
“Telephone contacts, of course, cannot give you the perfect picture of each other's personality. But at least, during those contacts, and before the election, we've seen some tweets by Mr. Trump saying that, that he was in favor of getting in dialogue with the Russian Federation to try to understand each other's concerns.”
“Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on them and we lose them all the time. We leave them in taxis. We leave them on airplanes. The consequences of one of these devices falling into the wrong hands are very, very serious.”
“Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.”
“Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.”
“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.”
“Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.”
“Teleportation and Time Travel are possible without using vast amounts of energy. They are as easy as just a single thought, but to understand how it works, we have to first understand ourselves, the universe within and our place within both.”
“Teleportation is going to be one of the best inventions that Tech Scientists have ever made. But, Africans did it first. The problem is that it was called voodoo and/or witchcraft.”
“Teleportation is weird. Especially if you’re wearing your neighbor’s skin suit and using his body to get around the old fashioned way—by walking. Why don’t you pick me up in a 1990 black Jeep Cherokee?”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“Telescope coordinates are 12 numbers long. After a couple of years working extreme night shifts on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, I could no longer remember the numbers that were read out to me by astronomers.”
“TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.”
“Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.”
Source: Damage: a novel
“Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.”
“Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.”
“Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.”
“Television always carried me: be it at my beginnings in small series and telefilms, or through my success in Kasamh Se and Bade Acche Lagte Hain. Thanks to TV, I saw an incredible dream come true: I could incarnate good and bad people, share my joys and pains with the audience, but also be part of this incredible medium that can educate and entertain at the same time! And with new TV platforms, the journey has only just started.”
“Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.”
Source: Stories: All-New Tales
“Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.”
“Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.”
“Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.”
“Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.”
“Television and I grew up together.”
Source: You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are
“Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up. Just the concept of "I had this idea" and within a week it was in the world, that was a part of why it felt weirdly empowering as a performer.”
“Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.”
“television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.”
“Television and the internet may offer anyone and everyone their fifteen minutes of fame; the passions and obsessions that drive human nature, however, remain the same same.”
Source: History's Naughty Bits
“Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.”
“Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.”
Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays
“Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.”
“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”
“Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.”
“Television can be a very fickle place”
“Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.”
“Television can only destroy.”
“Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.”
“Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.”
“Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.”
“Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.”
“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.”
“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“Television deprives children of their imaginations.”
“Television didn't transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to reach students in the classroom. It will also be a means by which students learn outside the classroom”
“Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.”
“Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.”
“Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.”