Wrong Number Quotes

• Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

  Cecelia Ahern

  Numbers, Sometimes

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• Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Sorry, Dad, Lying

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2010

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• If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

  Edward Tufte

  Numbers, Statistics, Boring

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• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  Bruce Jenner

  Two, Numbers, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Voice, Numbers

  P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.569, Random House

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• There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 am. It could be a right number.

  Doug Larson

  Numbers

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

  James Thurber

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 5 June 1937

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• It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

  Paul Auster

  Night, Voice, Numbers

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, Ideas, Oil

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.83, Random House

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• Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.

  Erma Bombeck

  Humorous, School, Phones

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Phones, Numbers, Alex

  Anthony Horowitz (2004). “Skeleton Key”, p.97, Penguin

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• Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  School, Numbers, May

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'

  Nita Ambani

  Father, Next Day, Numbers

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• I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vegas, Numbers, Ghost

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• To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Ideas, Numbers

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• At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Boys, Numbers

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