Answering Machines Quotes - Page 2

• In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

  Judy Horacek

  Machines, Messages, Hell

  7 Copy quote

• No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.

  Lydia Davis

  Machines, Calling, May

  Lydia Davis (2007). “Varieties of Disturbance: Stories”, p.86, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.” His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. “Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.

  James Patterson

  Fate, Voice, Storm

  James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.226, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Thinking, Waiting, Machines

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.104, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.

  Brendan Dooling

  Children, Phones, Machines

  Source: www.seventeen.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you ever leave a message for somebody and the answering machine cuts you off, and you have to decide whether you should not call back, or call back and appear like a stalker? "Hi. It's me again. I forgot to tell you that I'm going to kill you. Because I'm the freak who keeps calling and calling."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Cutting, Machines

  4 Copy quote

• Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Phones, Drunk, Advice

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

  Douglas Cardinal

  Machines, Answers, Questioning

  11 Copy quote

• Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who could be calling at this hour?'

  Michael Patrick King

  Night, Two, Voice

  4 Copy quote

• Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

  Angelina Jolie

  Phones, Voice, People

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 15, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Technology, United States, Machines

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

  Igor Levit

  Machines, Texting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Voice, People

  "Natalie Portman talks directing her first movie and why you'll never see her on social media". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mom, Teenage, Children

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

  Igor Levit

  School, Generations, Machines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.

  Christopher Walken

  Home, Years, Voice

  7 Copy quote

• I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.

  Hugh Laurie

  Voice, Light, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.

  Erma Bombeck

  Humorous, Son, Phones

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.497, Open Road Media

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal.

  Steven Wright

  Home, Phones, Machines

  4 Copy quote

• It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

  Dido Armstrong

  Somewhere Else, Machines, Suitcases

  9 Copy quote

• Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

  Erma Bombeck

  Girl, Humorous, Phones

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.64, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

  Fred Couples

  Humorous, Phones, Feelings

  61 Copy quote

• I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

  Drew Barrymore

  Hate, Voice, Phones

  "Gossip Girls". Interview with Judith Newman, www.marieclaire.com. February 4, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Love You, Kids

  52 Copy quote

• The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

  Paul Theroux

  Revenge, Party, Home

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source