Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Martin

The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.

Spike Jonze

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

Simon Cowell

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

Shelley Long

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

Richard Branson

Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.

Reese Witherspoon

If you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!

Richard Branson

The brand is only as good as your products, so.. if people have a good experience on Virgin Atlantic or if they have a good experience on Virgin trains or.. if they have a Virgin mobile phone and they can get straight through to our people and they're well looked after and then they'll try the next product that we launch.

Tim Harford

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

Steven Wright

I saw a close friend of mine the other day. . . . He said, "Stephen, why haven't you called me?" I said, "I can't call everyone I want. My new phone has no five on it." He said, "How long have you had it?" I said, "I don't know . . . my calendar has no sevens on it."

Steven Spielberg

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

Regina Brett

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

Regina Brett

The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.

Timothy Leary

When you get the message, hang up the phone.

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.

Tom Felton

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Toni Cade Bambara

There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

Steve Wozniak

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.

Stephen Elop

Microsoft Mobile Oy is a legal construct that was created to facilitate the merger. It is not a brand that will be seen by consumers. The Nokia brand is available to Microsoft to use for its mobile phones products for a period of time, but Nokia as a brand will not be used for long going forward for smartphones. Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.

Tate Taylor

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

Taron Egerton

I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!

Rico Love

Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.

Ricky Schroder

My sympathies go out to the young performers today because they are under a microscope in a way I wasn't. Now everybody's got a camera phone and can record at will or take pictures of you. It's just a different world. I don't know how I would have fared back then.

Richard Stallman

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

Trisha Goddard

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?

Trip Hawkins

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

Raymond Chandler

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

Regina Spektor

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

Vince Vaughn

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

Robert Glaser

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

Studs Terkel

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

Steve Jobs

No one is going to buy a big phone.

Steve Coogan

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.