Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Maron

We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.

Marc Andreessen

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day

Shannen Doherty

Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?

Natalie Portman

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

Tawni O'Dell

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Tony Abbott

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

Tony Blair

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

Simon Sinek

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Simon Sinek

When someone asks for your time, and you put your phone away to talk to them... that's leadership.

Simon Sinek

Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

Joyce Giraud

I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

Judy Woodruff

It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.

Judy Woodruff

In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

Judy Woodruff

Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.

Judy Woodruff

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

Joyce Meyer

Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers

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.

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.

Haruki Murakami

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

John Mayer

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

John Leguizamo

I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I found the voice. I called the director and said on the phone: "Guess who you're talking to Chris? Sid, that's right Sid!" And that's how I came up with the voice. That's a true story.

Kevin James

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

Katy Perry

I just wanna throw my phone away and find out who is really there for me

Peter Gallagher

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

Simon Sinek

Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.

Tamara Ecclestone

Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

Tom Peters

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

Tracy Morgan

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

Vanessa Hudgens

If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you,

Roger Angell

What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.

Richelle Mead

We had just paid the check when Dimitri's cell phone rang. "Hello?" he answered. And like that, his face transformed. That fierceness I so associated with him softened, and he practically glowed. "No, no. It's always a good time for you to call, Roza." Whatever the response on the other end was, it made him smile.