The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.