“I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.” BelieveReasonFallI BelieveFeetInfluenceStrangePhonesCellsBuriedUnusualGravityCompassUfoCell PhoneAnd OffReception Author:Alex Hirsch
“Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.” WalksLevelsFamePhonesCellsSupposed To BeCell PhoneJasonSneakyBourne Author:Ato Essandoh
“I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades.” StuffFansModernCenturyCarDesignHugeEasierClothesPhonesDecadesCellsMusclesAestheticLazinessFurnitureCell PhoneCherriesPhone BoothMuscle Car Author:Adam Reed
“I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what we`ve - the violence that we have seen on our cell phones and our TV sets over the last couple of years. I think Black Lives Matter has helped to force these issues. Women like Sabrina Fulton. We`re having a different conversation in this country right now about race and what it means to really understand your experience is and my experience is.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanDifferentCountryMatterLastsForceBlackRaceIssuesViolenceChangedTvsCoupleRight NowConversationPhonesCellsBarackPresidencyBlack Lives MatterCell PhoneBlack LivesSabrina Author:Killer Mike
“I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I would get crazy ideas. I would either sing into the cell phone recorder or I would sing into a DAT machine.” IdeasCrazyMachinesPhonesSpotsCellsDesertCell PhoneRecordersCrazy Ideas Author:Tim Rutili
“I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock it out and it's in my phone and I can transfer it to my computer and go into the studio and bring it up.” IfsWritingI CanIdeasWonderfulComputerPhonesStudiosCellsWonderful ThingsCell PhoneTransfers Author:Ian Astbury
“In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, and diaries," unquote. Plus, he went on, best friends, lovers.” JusticeDecisionPlayerLoversCamerasLibraryPhonesVideoCellsPlusTapeRulingDiariesCell PhoneCalendarsRecorders Author:Peter Sagal
“Mobile is no longer about what you can do on your cell phone. Mobile is all about doing more, all of the time.” Can DoMarketingPhonesSocial MediaCellsMobileCell Phone Author:Mitch Joel
“I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.” PeopleBigsRunningFilmEnjoyCostHollywoodPhonesCellsInsanityLots Of MoneyCell PhoneHollywood Films Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.” IfsBigsProcessHorrorPhonesCellsCell PhoneAccountingThrillers Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“Our daughter was the last in her class to get a cell phone and she had to earn it. She still doesn't have Instagram although she asks me for it every day.” StillsLastsAsksClassDaughterPhonesCellsAsk MeInstagramCell PhoneOur Daughter Author:Gretchen Carlson
“The increase in chemicals and the increase in technology, like wi-fi and cell phone use that's going through our bodies all of the time is something that is big on my radar.” UseBodyBigsTechnologyIncreasePhonesCellsChemicalsCell PhoneRadar Author:Mason Jennings
“We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.” AgePowerfulTechnologyComputerLeavingPhonesCellsCell Phone Author:Sadie Calvano
“In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."” IfsGivenNumbersSituationFiveIndiaPressesPhonesViolentCellsTrustedButtonsLocationCell PhoneHere I AmAppsSmartphonesPhone NumbersGpsTrusted Friends Author:Melinda Gates
“To bring the fans into the world of being like part of the crew through things like cell phone cases, making them feel like they are on tour with their favorite band is a cool thing.” WorldFeelsCasesFansBandPhonesCellsCrewCell PhoneCool ThingsFavorite Bands Author:A. J. McLean
“All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.” LongInspirationMotivationTechnologyDrugMembersPolicePhonesCellsOfficersGangCell PhoneDealerPolice OfficerDrug DealersGang Members Author:Marc Goodman
“Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.” WantClothesPhonesStoresCellsCell PhoneUnwantedThriftNew Clothes Author:Alan Bishop
“Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.” PeopleImportantMatterFightingAttentionPlansOfficeAll ThingsTasksConstantPhonesCellsWorking ItCell PhoneImportant WorkNotifications Author:Kevin Drum
“The law enforcement authorities have got a fairly good idea of who are these principal criminals. Who are the people, for instance, who receive the cell phones? When a young person goes and snatches a cell phone, there's someone who is sitting somewhere who receives this. Lots of this kind of crime.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasLawYoungCrimeAuthoritySittingPhonesCriminalsInstanceCellsGood IdeasPrincipalLaw EnforcementEnforcementCell Phone Author:Thabo Mbeki
“First, there are many who can fight, but they're small in stature; Zhang Lanxin is 177 cm [5'9"+] tall, with very long hands and legs, and very quick. In the scenes, I tried to show all of her special strengths and qualities. Plus, Zhang Lanxin has extraordinary staying power: it was only yesterday at the airport that I saw her cell phone photos from the hospital where she was having blood clots in her knee being cleared up, and I hadn't known till then that she had this problem.” FirstsLongShowsProblemHandsFightingQualityKnownSawsBloodSpecialSceneExtraordinaryPhonesLegsYesterdayCellsKneesStayingPlusHospitalsTallAirportsCell PhoneStatureStaying PowerBlood Clots Author:Jackie Chan
“The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.” PeopleWorldBookHalfHappenedCommunicationPhonesCellsComicGlobesComic BookCell Phone Author:Stan Lee
“I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.” ShowsTodayWinningDrinkCamerasDrinkingPhonesCellsCell Phone Author:Kenny Chesney
“First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsHumansStuffSeeingNewsNegativePressesPhonesCellsConcertsReally GreatHuman ExperienceCell PhoneGreat Experiences Author:Mike Dirnt
“For me, the anarchy movement is hilarious. It's all under .org, which is of course government sponsored websites, and then they're all wearing corporate clothing from the Dr.Martin's to the back sacks and the cell phones, they're all flying around on corporate jets and using corporate highways. Very anarchistic!” GovernmentCoursesMovementPhonesFlyingCellsCorporateAnarchyClothingsDrsHighwaysWebsiteJetCell Phone Author:John Lydon
“Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine, and having such good information at our fingertips. I can look up anything on my computer. And I can call any friend at the drop of a hat on my cell phone. And I can have beautiful clothing and great food in a world where people are being tortured. I have some responsibility for that.” PeopleWorldLooksI CanBeautifulActingResponsibilityInformationComputerWineDrinkingIncrediblesPhonesLuxuryCellsLook UpHatsClothingsCell PhoneFingertipsGood WineGreat FoodGood Information Author:Dar Williams
“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.” ThinkingReasonKitchenTweetCell PhoneTime To Think Author:Werner Herzog
“There weren't even cell phones when we started Garbage, we'd have to pull over to the side of the road and use a payphone to call the venue to make sure you knew where you were going and now of course everything is completely changed.” ChangedCell Phone Author:Butch Vig
“I think leaders lead themselves, but leaders have ideas and maybe they're visionary ideas. Probably today, people would say Steve Jobs was a visionary because he invented this little gadget, the cell phone. But he didn't invent cell phones, and he didn't design the cell phone. He just took a couple of ideas and put them together, and no one else put those same ideas together as successfully as he did. But he had something that he was trying to do that intrigued him, and he could do it very well.” PeopleThinkingTryingTodayTogetherLeaderDesignCoupleCell PhoneIntrigued Author:Les Wexner
“Humans are pack animals. In Biblical times, the great market cities in Europe or the United States, people want to be with other people. And in a way, the more that we're isolated, whether we're living on farms and we're only talking to our cell phone, the greater the need we have for group experience. So while people are saying that no one is going to go shopping because it's just inconvenient, and it's not as easy as buying online, why are people going to concerts? Why are people going to museums? Why are they going to sporting events?” PeopleEasyAnimalOnlineBiblicalCell Phone Author:Les Wexner
“I don't think I've invented anything. Henry Ford didn't invent the car, and Steve Jobs didn't invent the cell phone, and he didn't invent the digital revolution, but he could adapt, put things together in creative ways. So I think in what we do there's a lot of "let's try it and sees," whether it's a new color or a new style. But we didn't invent cosmetics or lingerie. How we market them - style, color - those are the things that we do, but it isn't pure creation. It's putting together ideas. I truly believe there's nothing really new in the world.” ThinkingWorldTryingBelieveTogetherCreativeCarStyleCreationRevolutionCell Phone Author:Les Wexner
“When I worry about privacy I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. And I think that does change a lot our sense of what is going on in our neighborhoods.” ThinkingWorryPrivacyNeighborhoodCell Phone Author:Jonathan Zittrain
“I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability of the NSA to turn on your cell phone, even if it's powered down, and listen to you in your home - that's insane to me. People had been warning that 1984 was just around the corner. Well, it has arrived, and Snowden has proven that.” PeopleHomeReadingAbilitySmartProgramInsaneCell Phone Author:Ted Rall
“There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.” PeopleClueCell Phone Author:Damian Loeb
“Before, if your phone was busy, your phone was busy. You had no cell phone. Now people work 24/7, their BlackBerry keeps them busy, and e-mail - and when do they have time for other pursuits? When do they have time to be politically active?” PeopleBusyCell Phone Author:Paula Patton
“The reson I don't own a cell phone is I like making plans and being free and being normal, the way everyone was back in the 80's. Kill your cell phone.” Cell PhoneBeing Free Author:Brent Weinbach
“I remember being like, 12 years old, and this was in the days before cell phones, or at least, having a cell phone. Some girls, I can't even remember who they said they were, called and said they had a crush on me. But it turned out to be a prank, and I thought that was just straight up nasty, you know what I'm saying? You're just sort of developing. You're insecure, your bones are growing... you have trouble sleeping. And all of a sudden, someone's pranking you on top of that? It's tough growing up.” RememberGirlSleepGrowing UpTroubleToughBonesCrushNastyInsecureCell PhoneStraight Up Author:Chris Baio
“I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.” ThinkingFilmEasyInterestingModernCommunicationInternetDramaHorrorCommunicateFilmmakerCell PhoneReally InterestingHorror Film Author:Joe Swanberg
“I think there's much more privileging of the new in art. I think people want to think they privilege the new in writing, but I agree with Virginia Woolf. She wrote a great essay called "Craftsmanship" about how difficult it is to use new words. It's really hard, but you see them coming in because obviously, if you're going to write... I mean, even to write "cell phone" in a novel - it's so boring.” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanArtDifficultNovelAgreeBoringEssaysCell PhoneCraftsmanshipSo Boring Author:Lynne Tillman
“Usually the casting process is lengthy and humiliating, but in this instance, The Ghost Writer, it was just too easy. I was sitting in a rental car on an L.A. street and my cell phone rang, and it was Roman Polanski on the line. I couldn't really believe my luck. He said, "See you in Berlin." I sat staring at a palm tree, thinking how surreal that was.” ThinkingBelieveEasyTreeCarLuckGhostStaringSatSurrealCell PhoneHumiliatingLengthy Author:Olivia Williams
“It's a certain kind of human compact that obviously you lose as soon as there is a screen and a camera there, so I think we'll always have theater. I think theater will always be a powerful force because we need that human touch, particularly as we spend more and more time with machines, cell phones, computers we start to lose our humanity.” ThinkingKindHumanityPowerfulComputerCell Phone Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I truly am not a fan of iPhones, iTunes, Facebook, cell phones - all of these ways to be manipulated these days.” Cell Phone Author:Lisa Germano
“I lived on Thompson Street in SoHo for 13 years and I watched it go from a little Italian neighborhood to the Mall Of America. Then the obvious fact that it's pre-Internet, pre-cell phone. Everyone I think thinks their youth is a more innocent time. I just don't know.” ThinkingYouthObviousInnocentNeighborhoodItalianCell Phone Author:Greg Mottola
“Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.” WorldWantLittlesBookHomeAnimalPoorPartyQuietPhonesRingsGladCellsMailBowlsSparesIntrovertCell PhonePubsChimesParty Animal Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that happened. So it's the old thing that you still cannot trust photography at all or you have to know who is distributing the photograph. In terms of cell phone photography, I think nobody cares about a photograph anymore because they're taking so many pictures just for fun.” PeopleThinkingCareFunTermSeriousPhotographyPhotographCell PhoneNobody Cares Author:Thomas Ruff
“I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.” FirstsUsedFirst TimeDifficultyPhonesCellsCell PhoneCoping Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.” WantPersonsLet MeAngryPhonesCellsCell PhoneAngry Person Author:Jim Lehrer
“But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.” WorldTodayOpportunityPossibilityCommunicationInternetPhonesStrangerCellsInstantFraudHypeCell PhoneToday's WorldInstant Communication Author:Armistead Maupin
“If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.” IfsThinkingTechnologyPhonesCellsExpensiveCell PhoneNew TechnologyLaptops Author:Elon Musk
“I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.” PeopleIfsThinkingPayWillingProductsPhonesCellsAlternativesApplesCompellingCell PhoneCheaperLaptopsPremium Author:Elon Musk