Phones Quotes - Page 22

• After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.

  Uwem Akpan

  Home, Thank God, Church

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.

  Deepak Chopra

  Technology, Fax Machines, Essentials

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

  Henry Rollins

  Dancing, Asking, Rings

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• I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Years, House

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• I was so tired, wasn't having fun any more, and wasn't sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up - I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Fun, Tired

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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• No matter how much we're on our phones, going to the show is the goal - you look at things online and watch videos and read blogs and comment, all so that you can go in person and see it yourself, and meet these people in real life, and then so you can go home and talk about it again on your screen.

  Darren Criss

  Real, Home, People

  "Inside Darren Criss' Plan to Create an Annual Music Festival With Broadway Performers". Interview with Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2015.

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• Being able to check your balance on the phone is the best invention ever.

  Lemar

  Balance, Able, Invention

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I remember a phone call from a friend of mine who lives along the MacKenzie River. She said, "This is the first year in twenty that the chinook salmon have not returned." This woman knows the names of things. This woman is committed to a place. And she sounded the alarm.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Years, Names, Rivers

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.

  Sheryl Crow

  Horse, Nice, Trying

  "Sheryl Crow on Motherhood". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 9, 2011.

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• You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.

  Jason Flemyng

  Doors, Bars, Pubs

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Cells, Connections

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• In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Teaching, California

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• I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.

  Richard Lewis

  Sex, Complaining, Ears

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• Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.

  Seth

  Trying, Letters, Gains

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• I saw a close friend of mine the other day. . . . He said, "Stephen, why haven't you called me?" I said, "I can't call everyone I want. My new phone has no five on it." He said, "How long have you had it?" I said, "I don't know . . . my calendar has no sevens on it."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Long

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• Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Memories, Laughter

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• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  Earl Wilson

  Gambling, Play, Honest

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• I was in China this year and I spent three weeks there with no luggage, in a really not very nice place and without anything except my passport and my wallet. You're a long way from home and you've got no phone and you can't get in touch with anybody.

  Jill Douglas

  Nice, Home, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

  Steven Wright

  Country, Questions And Answers, Speech

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• The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Husband, Cancer, Black

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• Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

  Robert Glaser

  Cisco, Plugs, Analog

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• My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

  Scott Adams

  Philosophy, Loser, Conversation

  "Phone". Scott Adams Blog, September 03, 2010.

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• I don't like the sound of my phone ringing so I put my phone inside my fish tank. I can't hear it, but every time I get a call I see the fish go like this <<<>>><<>><<<<. I go down to the pet store and said, "Give me another ten guppies, I got a lot of calls yesterday."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Yesterday

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• I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

  Naomi Watts

  Energy, Use, Know How

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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

  Answering The Phone, Ifs

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

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