Quotes About Phone

I pressed send and left Grindr open on my phone for a while. After fifteen minutes when there was no response, I closed it and tried to forget about the conversation. After twenty-four hours and still no response, I started to understand that the clear rejection was based on my being trans. - How to Be Gay When the Gays Won't Have You - Rae Spoon

I don't want to sound like someone's grandmother or anything here, but really, would it be so hard to pick up a phone and call?

dismay, that Arizona was one of a dozen states that did not require ride safety inspections. Laura realized she needed to talk to Micaela Brashear again. She thought about calling Jaime, but he would be wrapped up at the crime scene for a while. She could talk to Micaela by phone, but

time we had already logged hours of investigative phone calls to vet schools around the nation,

The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.

The nearest village was a place called Pauperhaugh which was a village in the sense that it had a phone box and a bridge. By the time I got down south I had decades to catch up on. We only got colour television in 1978.

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

Virtual reality, to me, seems to have a number of different tiers. Entry-level-tier VR is this experience: on a phone, some simple head-tracking, and some quick and dirty, game-engine-quality stuff.

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

A couple of years ago, clients would expect to have to make an appointment with a lawyer in order to be told what legal services could help them with their problem. Today, clients expect that information to be free, given over the phone instantly, or, better yet, available on demand on a website. Clients don't want to pay you to understand their problem and work out what they need, they just care about the outcome.

Italians answer the phone, "Pronto," the fact that Mommy never knew what to say when they said that, the fact that she struggled with Italian during that year in Rome, poor duck.

The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. Congratulations, I say, when what I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in stars so that she never, ever does to him what I have done to my parents.

She closed the phone, thinking how he always had enough magic in his pocket to change her mood even if he didn't have enough to change his dreams.

They say that guys keep conversation short and sweet while girls can talk for hours till they put you to sleep. But you're the one who checks up on me through out the day. You stay on the phone even if there's nothing to say.

Roses are red, I have a phone; nobody texts me, I am alone.

Reasons I check my voicemail: 1% to hear the message. 99% to get rid of that annoying icon.

When I get bored, I look through my entire phone to see if there are any cool options I missed.

This is not a great phone. It's an interesting design.

When you're at a lunch, enjoy being - I'm always on my phone when I'm at lunch or with things here or there. I've learned to put the phone down and be present.

A lesson is learned. It is easier, more efficient, to chop onions when you are only chopping onions, not conversing, checking up on the rest of the kitchen, answering the phone, flirting with the young lady scouring the coffeepot, or whatever.

She was transcribing names and phone numbers from an old book to a new one. There were no addresses. Her friends had phone numbers only, a race of people with a seven-bit analog consciousness.

The bottom of this e-mail contained our client's logo, their one-liner, and a phone number in case anyone was ready to place an order.

picking up the phone to say hello, somehow I never had. "Are you okay?

The reality hits hard when one wants to pick up the phone to share some experience only to remember that the loved one is not at the other end.