Quotes About Communication

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.

I, like many people, am constantly on my phone.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. 'Is everything fine?' This is breakfast.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

I know that my cell phone in Iran... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it.

If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then it would matter to know how I felt about what I was playing. You can't fake it in that situation. But I'm just counting them down as they appear on the chart, 1 through 40. What really matters is what I say between the songs.

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

I e-mail or phone my best girlfriend daily. Having people who know you well helps you stay grounded and gives perspective to whatever momentary drama you're going through.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.