Phones Quotes - Page 40

• What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions in the middle of the night.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Night, People

  "Dave Barry's Bad Habits". Book by Dave Barry, September 15, 1993.

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Humorous, Son, Ears

  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

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• 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, Years

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

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• Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Humorous, Want

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.95, Fawcett

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• [Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.

  Frank Sinatra

  Humorous, Numbers, Answering The Phone

  "Fictional character: Danny Ocean". "Ocean's 11", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Since I've made it to 87 so far, obviously my two kids and my seven grandchildren haven't been too hard on me. On the other hand, the fact that I have an unlisted phone number and move a lot might have something to do with it.

  George Burns

  Humorous, Moving, Kids

  George Burns (1983). “How to Live to be 100--or More: The Ultimate Diet, Sex, and Exercise Book”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Humorous, Wish, Machines

  "Seinfeld". Season 2, Episode 4: "The Phone Message", 1989-1999.

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• Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

  Peter Arno

  Dream, Humorous, Struggle

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• As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

  Tom Robbins

  Humorous, Machines, Someday

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• I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.

  Joni Mitchell

  Drinking, Sadness, Numb

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• There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

  Pete McCarthy

  Creative, Email, Advantage

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• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Way, Landscape

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• I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

  David Duchovny

  Play, Needs, Mail

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• I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.

  Eric Lindros

  Winter, Weekend, Games

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• I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Mean, Cells, Play

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• The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

  Bar Refaeli

  Cells, Three, Gadgets

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• I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

  Ron Chernow

  Moving, Thinking, Play

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• The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

  Robert Pozen

  Night, Two, Over You

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• I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.

  Max Greenfield

  Writing, Email, Needs

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

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• My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

  Toby Young

  Ambition, Cat, Eye

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• I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.

  Rick Bragg

  Writing, Airports, Editors

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• When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.

  Soulja Boy

  Thinking, Technology, Games

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• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  Adam Brody

  Dream, Fighting, Smoking

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

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• For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Cells, Numbers, People

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

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• The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Cutting, People, Missing

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