- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phone Quotes
On calls, apps, and the platforms fighting over your pocket.
One quote admits to basically living on a phone, news and information apps and all, while another wonders whether a third smartphone platform can ever catch up to the two giants. Compare notes with our Cell Phone quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
- Distractions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happiest when I'm with my daughter and I don't have any distractions with my phone going off.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.
- Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you're good.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.
- Errors
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.
- Homeless
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- Nov 07, 2020
The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They're off in a fantasy, and it's very similar to what happens on a cell phone.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020