Phone Quotes

• I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.

  

  Werner Herzog
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Phone

• Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

  

  Georgette Mosbacher
  • Universe
  • Creating
  • 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

• So just talking sync, being the size that we are and the catalogue that we have, we’re everybody’s first phone call. Which is really wonderful in the business, but it’s what you can do after that. Can you execute on the creative that they’re sending?

  

  Brian Monaco
  • Business
  • Creative
  • Call

• Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

  

  Seth Godin
  • Phone
  • Tweet

• I lost my phone and I just really didn't look for it. It was the nicest feeling, like six weeks. ... A couple of times I needed to use a telephone, and I was always able to touch someone that had a telephone and say, "Hey, can I use your phone? May I please?" And they'd say, "Sure." And that was it! So it was OK, it was a real vacation. I took a real vacation from myself.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Lost
  • Phone

• I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.

  

  Nate Oats
  • Hours
  • Days
  • Phone

• I don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Job
  • Phone

• Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.

  

  Paul Buchheit
  • Share
  • Phone
  • Private

• There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.

  

  Nick D'Aloisio
  • Time
  • Read
  • Content

• Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Kids
  • Parenting
  • Disastrous

• The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Songs
  • Records
  • Phone

• 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

• 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

• I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
  • Phone
  • Could

• I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Messages
  • Phone

• I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing.

  

  Steve Huffman
  • Answer
  • Phone
  • Texting

• Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

  

  Sydney Biddle Barrows
  • Hear
  • Phone
  • Trial

• Everybody in the Soviet Union knew the expression “this is not a phone conversation,” which expressed a wish to discuss something in person because they were afraid somebody else might be listening. The “somebody else” was the state and its vast networks of informers.

  

  Andrei Soldatov
  • Listening
  • Conversation
  • Phone

• I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Experience
  • Listen
  • Phone

• Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.

  

  William Esrey
  • World
  • Phone
  • Calls

• I don't spend much time on the computer at all, so I do most of my email on my phone if I do any at all.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Computer
  • Phone
  • E-mail

• My phone felt like it weighed ten pounds in my hands, and I almost fell asleep, but then I realized I’d been neglecting Facebook...

  

  Hank Green
  • Phone
  • Facebook

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