Thoughts on phones
The only still centre of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cellphone replaced.
—Patrick Stewart
Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.
—Ogden Nash
—Alexander Graham Bell
Apparently we love our cellphones, but we hate everyone else’s.
—Joe Bob Briggs
To be happy in this world, first you need a cellphone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless.
—Ted Turner
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
—Robert Staughton Lynd
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
—Fran Lebowitz
You’d be surprised how difficult it is to relinquish a cellphone.
—Adrien Brody
One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.—John C Mather
Images: Stewart: Axel Schmidt / Reuters; Brody: Regis Duvignau / Reuters; Bell: Stock Montage / Getty Images; Lebowitz: Danny Moloshok/ Reuters; Mather: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters; Turner: Phil Mccarten / Reuters
(This story appears in the 22 December, 2017 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
