Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Couples

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

Sometimes you'll be on the phone all day.

We were on the phone all day, every day. Talking and talking and talking.

We just got our first sat (satellite) phone that works today.

The ball's in Dave's court, ... If you see him, tell him to phone home.

I tried contacting him today but I think he was tied up in other phone calls.

They really need to get going. Their whole proposition is they're in better position than phone companies...but at some point they have to show they can deliver.

Carly Fiorina

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

Carlo Ratti

Phone networks can capture life on our planet.

Janeane Garofalo

Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

Janet Evanovich

I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.

Janet Evanovich

I felt my cell phone buzz, and I looked at the screen. Ranger. “Your GPS just went blank,” Ranger said when I answered. “The car exploded.” There was a beat of silence. “Rafael won the pool,” Ranger said. “Are you okay?” “Yes.” “I’ll send someone.

Ethan Zuckerman

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

Errol Morris

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

Cassandra Clare

Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. “You BROKE my PHONE.” Jace shrugged. “Guys don’t let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don’t let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop.” Alec looked furious. “So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot.” Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. “You’re welcome.

Carly Rae Jepsen

A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.

Jay Pharoah

I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.

Jay Leno

According to The Washington Post, the NSA has been monitoring phone calls and emails of people in Mexico. So apparently it's not enough to spy on American citizens, they feel they have to spy on FUTURE American citizens as well.

Jay Leno

President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad.'

Carly Fiorina

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

Mike Beebe

Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

Kirk Douglas

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

Kevin Harrington

I did something rather innovative that my competitors didn't like: I took out a full-page advertisement in the Yellow Pages that listed an office on the east side of Cincinnati, and another office on the west side, while every other heating/air-conditioning company had only one location and one phone number. I was the citywide company. In fact, our 'westside office' was just an answering service taking telephone message. From the start we appeared to be a big company.

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.

Jessica Szohr

Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

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.

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.

Jason Reitman

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Evan Davis

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.