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Quotes About Phone

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
~ Doug Coupland
There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.
~ Doug Larson
The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
~ Dwight L. Moody
family. The doctors at Bethesda were aware, from radio and television reports, that the dying President had been taken to a place called Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. No Navy doctor thought of phoning Parkland to ask what procedures had been tried, what wounds had been treated, to ask to what surgical abuses the body had been submitted. Nor did it occur to Parkland, when the news was broadcast that the remains were headed for Bethesda, to phone with a summary report of Texas procedures.
~ Jim Bishop
You believe in aliens?" "I'm dating a dryad, and you pulled a snake out of your phone. You're going to draw the line at aliens?" "If you try to tell me aliens built the pyramids, I am so out of here." "Don't be ridiculous." I waited a beat, then added, "The pyramids were built by mummified elves.
~ Jim C. Hines
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
~ Jim Thompson
Decided it's time to get a new phone, that's all." "What was wrong with the old one?" Ruger asked, his voice mild. "It broke.
~ Joanna Wylde
We'll dial for you, 'cause we're helpful that way," Horse said. "People don't always give us full credit for our warm, fuzzy side, but it's definitely there. We just love to help." "Fuckin' Mother Teresa of the MC world, Horse," Ruger chimed in. "Brings a tear to my eye." Gage snorted and tossed me the man's phone.
~ Joanna Wylde
Este teléfono sin contestador, la llamaré mañana, hoy se me hizo tarde, esta forma tan cobarde de no decirnos que no.
~ Joaquín Sabina
Balanced there, suicides sometimes meet, raging at the fruit, a pumped-up moon, leaving the bread they mistook for a kiss, leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was, an infection
~ Anne Sexton
14 h 45. Pour la première fois, j'ose téléphoner à l'ambassade d'URSS pour savoir (cela, savoir, savoir...) s'il y a ou non cinéma aujourd'hui. C'est non et je suis un peu soulagée, juste de ma jalousie, non de mon désir de le voir.
~ Annie Ernaux
Tenir. Faire comme d'habitude. J'ai traité, pendant deux heures au téléphone, les problèmes de traduction anglaise de Une femme. Puis Leclerc. Le ciel bleu, les arbres ensoleillés, le froid, comme l'année dernière, les mardis de novembre.
~ Annie Ernaux
Résolution : s'il ne vient pas à Cergy avant mon départ pour Jersey, je le vois encore une fois et je romps. Ou bien je romps au téléphone.
~ Annie Ernaux
Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
~ Arthur Smith
If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
~ Robin Williams
Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.
~ Jim James
Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.
~ Chris Kattan
The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot.
~ Tom Cotton
You've got a missed call,' Ryan said,
~ Robert Muchamore
if you'd like to show your phone's display on that computer screen, X-Mirage will do the job for Apple (iPhone & iPad) and Reflector for Android.
~ Robert Plank
If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
~ Robin Williams
But there was something about him—his voice, the way he listened to her when she spoke, his gaze. It was hypnotic. Mako was always on his phone. If he wasn't, he was distracted by his own thoughts. Not that he didn't love her, that they didn't connect often enough. But it was new to feel like someone was hanging on her every word.
~ Lisa Unger
Tell me something wonderful, he said to Dane. Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep. You're always writing one of your plays on the phone, said Dane. I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime. It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea. Ah, said Harry.
~ Lorrie Moore
I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.
~ Jarvis Cocker