Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fiona Apple

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

Cassandra Clare

No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

Christine Ebersole

In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don't call my phone unless you've got $100 million.

Fran Lebowitz

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

Frank Zappa

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

Jack Abramoff

A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'

J. B. Smoove

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

Isabel Allende

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

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.

Fred Couples

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

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

J. D. Salinger

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

Jennifer Westfeldt

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Jennifer Tilly

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, Okay, I'm white trash.

Jeaniene Frost

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.

Jerry Lewis

If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.

George Saunders

I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.

Jeff Perry

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

Jerry Seinfeld

It's like having... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

Jerry Seinfeld

You know how your charger for your phone? It's like if you had a charger for your whole body and mind

Neil Harbisson

Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.

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.

Sean Astin

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook

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.

Michel Gondry

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