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“Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.”

Long Messages Direct Surprise Phones Rings Cells Cell Phone Phone Calls Texting Text Message Mailing

Author:Susan Orlean

“When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.”

Long Made Kids Lines Rain Constant Distance Rate Phones Spending Dirt Commodity Eleven Phone Calls Long Distance Premium Flamboyant

Author:Susan Orlean

“There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.”

Phones Los Angeles Redneck Phone Calls

Author:Priscilla Presley

“Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.”

Children Book Hands Three Adults Phones Narrative Massive Delicate Costumes Clue Phone Calls Containing Unchanging Snape

Author:Alan Rickman

“I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.”

Age Next Social Becoming Understood Evidence Embrace Phones Posts Privacy Email Invasion Becoming More Phone Calls Unspeakable Texting Invasion Of Privacy

Author:Will Self

“No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.”

May Moments Next Regret Phones Phone Calls Don't Regret Don't Regret Anything

Author:William Shatner

“I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.”

People Years Stills Happened Years Ago Phones Decades Hospitals Cheer Get Over Phone Calls

Author:Richard Simmons

“If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.”

Ifs Men Feels Important Left Chance Successful Phones Email Consuming Chances Are Phone Calls Left Out Successful Women Time Consuming Business Trips

Author:Patti Stanger

“The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!”

Ifs Way Enough Bigs Hate My Friends Phones Loud Gossip Phone Calls Untrue Ordeals Publicists

Author:Taylor Swift

“The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.”

Play Next Cities Phones Dread Cop Next Day New Day Phone Calls

Author:Ice T

“When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.”

People Thinking Knows Way Want Years Has Beens Games Media Phones Fortunate Injured Phone Calls

Author:Venus Williams

“I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.”

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Author:Bob Woodward

“The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.”

Years Lasts Technology Century Phones Telephones Phone Calls Charging Time For A Change Old Technology

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.”

Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

“Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.”

World Form Phones Torture Civilized Phone Calls

Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”

Ifs Sometimes Faces Felt Air Phones Heavy Breathing September Phone Calls Louisiana Obscene Secretive

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.”

Years Play Happens Hurt Phones Complicated Brilliant Loaded Phone Calls Bleak Being Hurt Subtext

Author:Nick Hornby

“There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.”

Long Certain Interesting Materials Universal Distance Phones Realms Conspiracy Phone Calls Textbooks Long Distance

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.”

Knows Want Feels Mean Real Reality Suffering Asks Sun Depression Angel Shining Phones Corners Oil Ask Me Tigers Baptists Phone Calls Life Means John The Baptist Angel Of Death Gelatin

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.”

“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.”

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Author:Pam Brown

“The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.”

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Author:Sherrod Brown

“Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.”

Daughter Phones Phone Calls

Book:Someone Like You

Source: Someone Like You

“I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.”

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Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.”

Thinking Want May Interesting Phones Lunch Phone Calls

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture

“I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.”

Thinking Doors Letters Phones Email Knocking Stalking Phone Calls

Author:Nick Hornby

“If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven’t had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. ‘Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?’ (Acheron)”

“The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls.”

Persons Whole Mistake Worst Phones Assumption Bless Mail Worst Things Frustrating Pointing Consuming God Bless Phone Calls Time Consuming

Author:George Carlin

“...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.”

“His gaze was a lot steadier than her heartbeat. “She’s the reason for those whispered phone calls I used to overhear, isn’t she?” “Don’t be silly. I was talking to my lover.” “She told me she lives at a place called Brookdale. After I hung up, I did a little research on the Web. Your talent for obfuscation continues to amaze me.” “Hey, I haven’t obfuscated in weeks. Makes you go blind.”

Littles Reason Used Talking Week Talent Havens Lovers Research Blind Phones Silly Hey Hung Heartbeat Phone Calls Being Silly My Lover Obfuscation

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.”

Ifs Sides Realizing Rivers Roots Died Phones Branches Floating Phone Calls

Author:Mitch Albom

“Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.”

Two Silence Pieces Air Limits Horse Phones Hearing Strings Silence Is Phone Calls

Book:Come, Thief: Poems

Source: Come, Thief: Poems

“Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.”

Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge

“You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.”

Ifs Knows Long Waiting Phones Hardest Email Phone Calls Unanswered Letting Things Go

Book:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.”

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Author:Brady Udall

“I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.”

Should Television Phones Priorities Shirts Jersey Phone Calls Rangers Flannels

Book:Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

Source: Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs”

“i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.”

Ifs Feels Soul Notes Phones My Soul Grades Phone Calls Talk To Me Flirty Sixth Grade

Author:David Levithan

“For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.”

Funny Death Grows Comedy Hair Phones After Death Phone Calls Fingernails Death Remembrance Death Anniversary

Author:Johnny Carson

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”

“I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.”

Thinking Knows Doe Made Worry Office Bills Clinton Buddhist Temples Tied Telephones Gore Phone Calls

Author:Barbara Olson

“A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.”

Children States Lasts America Remember Forget United Grief United States Fire Honor Died Phones Passing Passings Patriotic Funeral Ashes September United States Of America Phone Calls

Author:George W. Bush

“Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish.”

People Pay Attention Advice Letters Phones Pay Attention Privacy Comment Anguish Phone Calls Save Yourself

Author:Edward Kennedy

“I have dumped a girl over the phone. It's terrible, isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call, so I basically said, 'I don't wanna be with you anymore,' and she cried. I saw her after that and it was a bit awkward.”

Said Girl Bits Saws Terrible Argument Phones Awkward Cried Phone Calls Cocky Dumped

Author:Justin Bieber

“You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you stand behind in line or sit next to on an aeroplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.”

“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”

Love Writing Lost Women Letters Phones Memorable Phone Calls

Book:Getting Better All the Time

Source: Getting Better All the Time

“I definitely know that-that love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that-God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I remember thinking that when 9/11 happened because those last phone calls were about-the last thing knowingly, that I'm going to say on this earth is 'I love you.' What's more powerful than that? What's more proof than that? Beyond fear, beyond death.”

Thinking Knows Earth Lasts Remember Love Is Powerful Wise Happened Love You Cry Phones Witty Proof Most Powerful Phone Calls

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!”

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Author:Chris Colfer

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