Phones Quotes

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing.

If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church.

..is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

Communism is like one big phone company.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God;

I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;

but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone.

If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.

There are things you just can't do in life.

You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access;

doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission.

There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that .

.. look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

Here in Biosphere 1 [Earth], well it takes me about two minutes, because I pick up the phone and I call and say, 'Hey, can you deliver the pizza?'

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?.

.. No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

Follow up the interview with a phone call.

If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone.

The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy.

I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

The only still center 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 cell phone replaced.

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?

I started writing it the day after Sept.

11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from.

But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.