Answering The Phone Quotes

• [Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.

  Frank Sinatra

  Humorous, Phones, Numbers

  "Fictional character: Danny Ocean". "Ocean's 11", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

  Richard Dooling

  Phones, Waste, Limits

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• Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

  Irvine Welsh

  Phones, Locks, Rooms

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.

  Bart Millard

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

  Sharon Olds

  Running, Phones, Half

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

  Dorothy Day

  Phones, House, Acting

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• If you're not popular, then everyone is not wanting anything to do with you, or not answering the phone.

  Hilary Duff

  Phones, Ifs

  "Hilary and Haylie Duff Are Material Girls". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. August 17, 2006.

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