Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....

Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.

The playbook is like a phone book,

The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.

I found them in the proverbial old trunk, ... One of them may be the oldest phone directory in town. It's just a single sheet of paper with typed numbers on it.

Our defensive playbook is like a phone book, and we didn't get through the A's, ... We have a lot things we can pull out if we need to, or we can let our great players make plays. That's what we did Sunday — we stayed conservative and let great players make plays.