Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!
- Alexander Graham Bell
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
- Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.
- Stephen Jay Gould
A million hearts here wait our call,
All naked to our distant speech--
I wish that I could ring them all
And have some welcome news for each.
- Christopher Darlington Morley,
The Rocking Horse--Of a Telephone Directory
An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call
That bides the spheres become articulate.
- Josephine Preston Peabody (Mrs. Lionel Simeon Marks)
This is a marvel of the universe:
To fling a thought across a stretch of sky--
Some weighty message, or a yearning cry,
It matters not; the elements rehearse
Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse
The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly
Unswervingly, until, upreached on high,
A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.
- Josephine Preston Peabody (Mrs. Lionel Simeon Marks)
An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Telephone
Poem lyrics of The Telephone by Robert Frost
'When I was just as far as I could walk
From here today,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head again a flower
I heard you talk.
Don't say I didn't, for I heard you say--
You spoke from that flower on the window sill-
Do you remember what it was you said?'
'First tell me what it was you thought you heard.'
'Having found the flower and driven a bee away,
I leaned on my head
And holding by the stalk,
I listened and I thought I caught the word--
What was it? Did you call me by my name?
Or did you say--
Someone said "Come" -- I heard it as I bowed.'
'I may have thought as much, but not aloud.'
"Well, so I came.'