Phone Quotes

• Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Conversation
  • Recording
  • Kills

• All the names of the new and certain dead were falling out of the air like little 4-D scabs the TV weathermen mistook as hail. Each house ever had a number you could use to speak into it, and so often I would use the phone inside my brain to call these people I’d soon visit and just sit there breathing my dinner into their head.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Brain
  • Breathing
  • Falling

• I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Anger
  • Phone
  • Smash

• This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Child
  • Sick
  • Punishing

• If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

  

  Chris Black
  • Working
  • Interested
  • Sit Down

• The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

  

  Niels Diffrient
  • Phone
  • Less
  • Like It

• If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

  

  Robin Williams
  • Why
  • Number
  • Psychic Network

• Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense - last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Charity
  • Hunting
  • Hello

• 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?

  

  Trisha Goddard
  • Television
  • Phone
  • Area

• ...if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

  

  Arman
  • Relationships
  • Phone
  • Solitary

• I love hanging out with people who make me forget to look at my phone.

  

  David Wolfe
  • People
  • Forget
  • Hanging

• If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.

  

  Arthur Mitchell
  • Think
  • Phone
  • Following

• When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Career
  • Phone
  • Challenging

• Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

  

  Aryn Kyle
  • Problems
  • Answer
  • Phone

• That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Sleep
  • Writers
  • Evident

• When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Phone
  • Onstage

• Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Life
  • Phone
  • Riskier

• I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

  

  Neil Oliver
  • Years
  • More
  • Worrying

• I did a commercial for a phone company when I was five. But my first big thing was when I was eight. I was on the first season of 'E.R.'

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Company
  • Thing
  • Commercial

• I get all excited when I think that someone's 1-900 sex call from a cell phone might be passing through my body right now.

  

  David Henry
  • Sex
  • Body
  • Excited

• When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

  

  Steven Hall
  • Writer
  • Phone
  • Tool

• I’m so glad I stole your phone out of your bag to get your number that night..I’m so glad I told you exactly what I wanted and never played games..I’m so glad you believed my words, my eyes and my heart…

  

  Marvin Humes
  • Heart
  • Games
  • Phone

• She considered, maybe for the first time, how lucky she was to be able to pick up the phone and call her mother whenever she needed bad advice.

  

  Brady Udall
  • Mother
  • Advice
  • Considered

• Bill Shawn had always been in The New Yorker immaculately dressed - quietly, immaculately dressed, very soft-spoken. On the phone I could hardly hear him sometimes.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Phone
  • Dressed
  • The New Yorker

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