Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabel Allende

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

How do they get the phone to ring? $12.99.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm waiting by my phone to make sure he is all right. He says it's the most wind he's ever seen.

I'm trying to get my clients' phones to ring. If their phones don't ring, they're not going to use my service.

Neil Gaiman

What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

Neil Gaiman

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

John Waters

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

Nick Harkaway

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

Seth Godin

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

Seth Godin

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

Tom Cole

Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

Sloane Crosley

I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

Michael Showalter

I just made a movie. There's a kind of a banter that some people might recognize as being screwball. There are no cell phones, no DVD playersit's set in a timeless Brooklyn. Hopefully, it's a good, old-fashioned movie.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)

Terry McAuliffe

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

Margaret Heffernan

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

Rand Paul

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

Patricia Ireland

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

Martin Scorsese

I still dislike phones, yeah!

Lee Child

Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

Lisa McMann

The phone rings. “Asshole,” she mutters. She picks it up. “Will you let me explain?” “No.” She hangs up.

Lynn Shelton

I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle or all of us meeting in person at some point, which is ideal if at all possible before we get on set together.

Sherry Turkle

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

Sherry Turkle

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

Nick Clegg

Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and listen to his messages

Nas

I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

Miranda July

If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

Johnny Knoxville

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists.

You want to get an idea of how they thought they would use the phone versus how they actually use it.

Peter Diamandis

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

Marisha Pessl

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Marissa Mayer

The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.