Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Ratti

Phone networks can capture life on our planet.

Julian Baggini

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

Kim Gordon

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones

Irvine Welsh

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.

Gloria Steinem

The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A million times better than the phone and the mimeograph! Also much better than TV, which is one-way and passive.

Greg LeMond

I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame or adulation. I didn't feel worthy of it. I was ashamed by who I thought I was because I felt partly responsible [for the abuse] and I was never able to enjoy the stuff I should have been able to enjoy. My first thought when I won the Tour was: 'My God, I'm going to be famous', and then I thought, 'He's going to call'. I was always waiting for that phone call. I lived in fear that anyone would ever find out.

Ian Mcewan

And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.

Ian Frazier

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

J. Taylor

I could've returned his phone calls, ... I'm not getting into that, but it was the offseason.

Joe Gibbs

I could have returned his phone calls, but it was off-season.

Howard Rheingold

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Howard Rheingold

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

Harvey Milk

I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power — it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.

Irving Kristol

Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

Mordecai Richler

This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

Miles Davis

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Jools Holland

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

Kelley Armstrong

We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need.

Joe Lhota

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

Ellen DeGeneres

Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing ... chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too.

Eric Schmidt

Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not ... you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.

Eric Schmidt

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

Henry Rollins

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.

Hilary Duff

If you're not popular, then everyone is not wanting anything to do with you, or not answering the phone.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

Narendra Modi

Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow.

Michel Gondry

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Mark Zuckerberg

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

Ted Cruz

The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists are likely to use and the focus of law enforcement is on targeting the bad guys.

Ted Cruz

Nidal Hasan communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a known radical cleric, asked about waging jihad against his fellow soldiers. The problem is because of political correctness, the [Barack] Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone's cell phones and e-mails and not focus on the bad guys. And political correctness is killing people.

Ted Cruz

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

Mandy Moore

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.