“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.” WantFirstsSoundKnownOne ThingHorseTelephonesFirst LadyOperatorsSaddlesNotify Author:Jackie Kennedy
“We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.” ThinkingLyingSoundStrangerDeceptionTelephonesAmazement Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism
“Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.” WritingCultureSoundVoicePayAttentionTeamOfficeMessagesAreasScriptsCustomersChecksWelcomePay AttentionMailTelephonesService CultureWords And Music Author:Ron Kaufman
“Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.” WorldWritingHouseSoundSimpleLove IsMorningFrontsOfficeRainLettersDetailsSmellHardestPocketsGraySunlightHittingTelephonesHardest ThingOhioTinEarly MorningLilacStationery Author:Billy Wilder
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?” IfsThinkingShouldYearsHumansMeanLittlesEndsUseSoundVoiceHalfHundredYears AgoShould HaveEarsMiracleToneIronDelicateTelephonesWireElusiveNuanceCorrespondenceHuman VoiceDisk Author:William Crookes