Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherry Turkle

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

Nick Clegg

Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and listen to his messages

Nas

I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

Miranda July

If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

Johnny Knoxville

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists.

Michael Hastings

I'm talking to people all of the time. So it hasn't really had a big impact. Access is never my main concern anyway. If you keep digging and making phone calls you can get stories and not have to rely on the good graces of the Pentagon spokesperson. I am not in his good graces.

Michel Gondry

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

Luke Pasqualino

Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.

Since the Culpepper announcement our phones have been ringing off the hook.

Jerry Seinfeld

It's like having... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

Jerry Seinfeld

You know how your charger for your phone? It's like if you had a charger for your whole body and mind

Jeffrey Kluger

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

Jeffrey Skoll

I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.

Christopher Hitchens

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

Gary Vaynerchuk

We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

Evan Davis

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.

Ethel Waters

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don't call my phone unless you've got $100 million.

Fran Lebowitz

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

George W. Bush

All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

Gene Simmons

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

Fiona Apple

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

Cassandra Clare

No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

Christine Ebersole

In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.

J. B. Smoove

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

Isabel Allende

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

Irving Kristol

Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

Frank Zappa

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

Jennifer Westfeldt

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Jennifer Tilly

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, Okay, I'm white trash.

Jeaniene Frost

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.

Jerry Lewis

If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.

George Saunders

I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.