Phones Quotes - Page 26

• I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

  Apolo Ohno

  Eye, Text Messaging, Phone Calls

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• One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

  Susan Orlean

  Friendship, My Best Friend, Watches

  "Togetherness" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

  Susan Orlean

  Cells, Long, Texting

  "Hello, It's Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

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• I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.

  Susan Orlean

  Thinking, Different, Use

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.

  Susan Orlean

  Hate, Home, Cells

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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• When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

  Susan Orlean

  Distance, Rain, Kids

  "Hello, It’s Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

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• Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Pests, Schedules

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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• You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.

  Susan Orlean

  Crazy, Smart, Thinking

  "Stay Out of My Dropbox" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.

  Chris Pratt

  Cells, Use, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

  Priscilla Presley

  Redneck, Phone Calls, Los Angeles

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• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  Dan Quayle

  Yesterday, President, Politics

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• Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, Fax, Mail

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• I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Thinking, Cells, Important

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• Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

  Alan Rickman

  Children, Book, Hands

  "Every Snape scene in chronological order shows his anguished evolution" by Rob Dean, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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• As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

  Andy Rooney

  Book, Secret, Trying

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• The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Differences, Cells, Talking

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• When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

  Charles Schumer

  Cells, Cell Phone, Should

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• I still dislike phones, yeah!

  Martin Scorsese

  Yeah, Stills, Dislike

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• I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

  Will Self

  Age, Texting, Invasion

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

  Will Self

  Hands, Cards, Intimacy

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• I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

  Will Self

  Texting, Neglect, Resorts

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Party, Shopping, Events

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

  William Shatner

  Thinking, People, Messages

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• No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

  William Shatner

  Regret, May, Next

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• When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

  Sherri Shepherd

  Cousin, Ideas, Numbers

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