Main Telephone Lines

Famous quotes containing the words main, telephone and/or lines:

    “I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    “But even in a telephone booth
    evil can seep out of the receiver
    and we must cover it with a mattress,
    and then tear it from its roots
    and bury it,
    bury it.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Child of Light! thy limbs are burning
    Through the vest which seems to hide them;
    As the radiant lines of morning
    Through the clouds ere they divide them;
    And this atmosphere divinest
    Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinest.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)