Phones Quotes - Page 39

• If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

  Kevin Bacon

  Successful, Waiting, Actors

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• I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

  Brad Delp

  Book, Thinking, Wonder

  Interview with Pär Winberg, www.melodic.net. March 1999.

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• I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Jobs, New Orleans, Office

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• We're into tech stuff, gadgets, phones, video games. We'll treat a video game premiere like a movie premiere. I'm just going to be honest with what I like and what I do. What I enjoy. We're not going to hide the fact that people are on the Internet all day. I think a lot of shows don't really mention that.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Games, People

  "Jimmy Fallon Dishes on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 20, 2009.

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• People check their phone an average of 110x a day.

  Jay Baer

  Average, People, Social Media

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• Does anybody has President Obama's phone number? 'Cause I have figure out why the unemployment rate in the United States is so high. Because Zack Ryder's doing all the jobs.

  Zack Ryder

  Jobs, Wwe, Numbers

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• I'm sorry, Mankind can't get to the phone right now, cause he's got The Rock's foot in his mouth!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Sorry, Rocks, Wwe

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• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Fall, School, Boys

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• We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Kids, Library, Shy

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• The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.

  Langston Hughes

  Death, Fall, White

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.15, Hill and Wang

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• Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

  Richard Turner

  Block, Talking, Shopping

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• Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to "fix" the situation - which isn't possible anyway.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Sleep, Night, Ideas

  "School Bullying: What You Haven’t Heard" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

  Jean Kerr

  Numbers, Long, Actors

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

  Jeff Bezos

  Real, Smart, Cameras

  "The Customer Is Always Right". Interview with Daniel Lyons, www.washingtonpost.com. December 21, 2009.

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• Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

  Douglas Coupland

  Past, Ideas, Two

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Chance, Situation

  "Bill Murray: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Thinking, Voice

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• I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Done, Orchestra, Bugs

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• Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we are constantly listening to noise all around us. The human heart was meant for times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams! Schedule some quiet "dream time" this week. No other people. No cell phone. No computer. Just you, a pad, a pen, and your thoughts.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Heart, Cells

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• Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize that all our hard-won knowledge may only be provisional and the world may be quite different than we believe it to be. This can be very stressful, even frightening. But if we are not willing to wonder, we may have to hang up the phone on life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Believe, Knowing, Encounters

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• To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Encounters, Events, Purpose

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Agency, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

  Tom Robbins

  God, Prayer, Humorous

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.48, Random House

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• She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Humorous, Helping

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.140, Bantam

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• Don't call me when you're stuck in traffic. It's not my fault that radio sucks and did it ever occur to you that there wouldn't be so much traffic if people like you put down the phone and concentrated on the road... besides I can't talk now, I'm in the car behind you trying to watch a DVD.

  Bill Maher

  Humorous, Dvds, People

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.30, Rodale

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