“One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.” ImportantSocialKnowingMediaDown AndImportant ThingsPhonesSocial Media Author:Taylor Swift
“Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.” AmericaCompanySupportTruth IsExpectationsPhonesApplesVirginsExceedExemplaryTruth Be Told Author:Gary Hamel
“For me, personally, Im usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.” ShowsFilmListeningPhonesRadio Author:Yara
“Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.” WellsKidsStuffHoursPhonesGossip Author:Anna Quindlen
“Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.” PeopleIfsWantGivingFirstsPersonsLastsHoursResultsWatchesDoorsConsequencePhonesProductivityLunchMailLocksEnteringVisitorsPhone CallsOne HourInterruptions Author:Geri Larkin
“Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box.” KnowsGivingColdOfficePhonesBoxesShouldersPostsPhone CallsPost OfficeCold Shoulder Author:Nancy Dunnan
“I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's too hard to get on the phone and he doesn't drink my kind of scotch.” KindHardGuyDrinkPhonesCultAllegianceScotch Author:Mark Rippetoe
“Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.” PeopleLongHelpingPoorPovertyMillionsTechnologySafeAccountsIncludingFinancialPhonesAccessSavingCellsRangePoor PeopleSavingsCell PhoneAffordableEnablingSavings AccountsFinancial Services Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“I know that my cell phone in Iran... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it.” KnowsPhonesCellsAddressesIranEmailCell Phone Author:Hooman Majd
“I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.” IfsPersonsTvsListeningPhonesRadioFascinatedWatching Tv Author:David Rodigan
“I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.” PastPhonesOnlineFlipIphoneAntiquesAndroidsI'm Back Author:Tim Allen
“I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there. More and more women have found themselves doing phone sex and things like that, to help pay bills, so that they could be two-income households. They can do these short-term jobs and still pick up their kids at school, at the end of the day, and drop them off in the morning. I find it fascinating. I'm not one to judge the people in that situation, nor would I really want to.” PeopleThinkingWantStillsTwoEndsHelpingKidsSchoolJobsAmericaFoundSexTermCan DoPaySituationMorningTroubleJudgingPicksBillsSurprisePhonesIncomeThe End Of The DayFascinatingHouseholdShort Term Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“I don't really send text messages. I rarely carry my phone. I occasionally check messages at the end of the night, but I don't carry it around.” EndsNightMessagesPhonesChecksText Message Author:Angelina Jolie
“It's a terrible process, what you go through, during pilot season. All the shows turn themselves in and there is a good four to six weeks before you get phone call.” ShowsTurnsProcessFourWeekTerribleSixSeasonsPhonesPilotsPhone Calls Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.” KnowsShouldHumansImportantPlayKnow HowMiddleHugeMessagesPhonesCrowdsStaring Author:Roxane Gay
“I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!” MeanTwoTvsPhonesCellsEmailCablesInsultingCell PhoneIpodsAccusingCable TvAccusing MeInsulting Me Author:Sherman Alexie
“With camera phones and, you know, iPad's and cameras at stoplights, it's like I just want to drive around with a bag on my head because I just feel like everyone's watching.” KnowsWantFeelsCamerasPhonesBagsIpads Author:Taraji P. Henson
“You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life” FeelsLife IsFoundLike YouSurvivalInstinctPhonesCellsPanicButtonsBathroomCell PhoneSurvival InstinctJeopardyTasers Author:Emma Roberts
“I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world.” WorldYearsMadeStatesReasonPresidentHavensPhonesTerrorismTerroristAround The WorldBarackIranPlusPhone CallsPresident Barack ObamaCentral BanksBlown Away Author:Barack Obama
“I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.” IfsWantWould BePastUsedFunHoursWalksTelevisionCouplePhonesCellsParisParksLunchNow And ThenBroadwayMaximsConvenientCell PhoneDentistAntibioticsAnestheticsWalks In The Park Author:Woody Allen
“I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach an agreement over Iran's nuclear program. While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution.” BelieveMeanTwoImportantMovingI BelievePresidentEffortSolutionsProgramPhonesObstaclesNuclearMoving ForwardIslamicAgreementSpokesIranRepublicOngoingComprehensiveTwo Of Us Author:Barack Obama
“In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.” PhonesChinaErasEmailMobileLoopsSydneyMobile Phones Author:Tony Abbott
“I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends; "Mike, the Sheriff is closing us down on Monday. If you'd like to drive into the studio tomorrow morning, you can have anything you want." So rather than go in and take home piles and piles of cels of Spider-Man what did I take home? Two pages of original art that got sent out to the west coast. Now of course if I'd have taken all the rest of that stuff home I could probably have retired a lot earlier.” IfsMenWantArtTwoHomeRememberCoursesStuffMorningTakenTomorrowPagesOriginalsWestPhonesStudiosGrantsAfternoonGood FriendCoastMondayFridaySpidersMikeRetiredClosingPhone CallsSpider ManWest CoastSheriffsTomorrow MorningOriginal ArtFriday Afternoon Author:Mike Royer
“We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.” ThinkingWantUseEasyEffortSeriousPicksPhonesExtrasPhone CallsTextingCrutchesExtra Effort Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.” WayWantPlayGirlAsksDifferencesLike YouMessagesResponsePhonesMaking A DifferenceGet BackPhone CallsTextingText MessagePower PlayGet A Girl Author:Michael B. Jordan
“What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.” WantHardJobsActorsHard WorkPhonesProductionsRingsFrustratingWraps Author:Jason Bateman
“What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.” IfsFormLife IsWorshipUltimatePhonesDefinitionsIdolsDeities Author:Jon Foreman
“I was playing in the juniors at Wimbledon I forgot to turn my mobile phone off. It was lying there in my bag and it rang in the middle of a match, and it was one of my friends from school saying, 'Murray, you're on the telly!' I learnt from that. I now put my phone on silent.” SchoolLyingTurnsMiddleMy FriendsSilentPhonesBagsMobileJuniorsMobile PhonesWimbledon Author:Andy Murray
“I don't want to quit. I've always said that Clint Eastwood is one of my best friends. I've known Clint for many years and we have almost a jokey relationship about retirement. I always say: "OK Clint, are you ready to retire this year?" And he always says: "No, are you?" So, I'm waiting for the phone call where Clint says he's hanging up his spurs. That's never going to happen. If it doesn't happen for Clint, it won't happen for me.” IfsWantYearsSaidHappensWaitingKnownReadyPhonesQuittingRetirementRetiringMy Best FriendPhone CallsSpurs Author:Steven Spielberg
“We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.” PeopleIfsAgeSoundMessagesPhonesCome UpSentencesPhrasesBitesInteractionSound BitesText Me Author:Marc Maron
“I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic.” ThinkingLittlesShowsNextWaitingEnjoyChanceOne DayElementsSittingSurpriseLifetimePhonesCome UpFantasticNext DayShow BusinessPhone CallsElement Of Surprise Author:Elton John
“I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.” FeelsStillsI CanStuffInterestingBrainCasesTechnologyComputerPhonesExtremesAnxiousInteractionReally InterestingManicOverdoing It Author:George Saunders
“I always cheerfully say, "Well, you know, the species is adapting, and whatever it needs to do, it'll do," but I do think it's maybe a little bit alarming. Everybody knows that one thing we really have to do is to be more wherever we are, more present, that's just kind of a commonplace. And the whole mobile phone thing is completely 100% the opposite - to never be where you are because you can always be somewhere else; and yet it's so fun and addictive.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWellsKindLittlesWholeFunBitsOne ThingLittle BitOppositesSpeciesPhonesWhere You AreMobileSomewhere ElseCommonplaceAdaptingMobile Phones Author:George Saunders
“I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.” PeopleLongDoeEndsSelfNumbersLandExampleMovementInternetLong TimeOkayPhonesHillsGooglePredictionsEmailCablesGuessingSatellitesBacklash Author:George Saunders
“My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, "What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?"” KindDifferentEarthAsksTalkingPhonesListsAsk MeMy Best FriendMadisonTranslatorsSlang Author:Emma Watson
“When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth, so that's OK with me. If something true came out, I would have to check my circle to see who's talking and possibly make an apology phone call to my parents!” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingMeanLyingParentTalkingPhonesCirclesChecksApologyPhone Calls Author:Eva Mendes
“Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.” PeopleYearsStillsStatesJobsFoundOpportunityLostTalkingFiveIndustryComputerYears AgoTwentiesConstantPhonesCellsFive YearsCell PhoneTwenty Five Author:Wayne Dyer
“Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.” Would BeMovingAnswersActivityRemainsPhonesStillnessWorldlyRushingMoving InSlow Motion Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A million times better than the phone and the mimeograph! Also much better than TV, which is one-way and passive.” WayMillionsInformationTvsInternetFindingsPhonesOne WayPassiveMiraculous Author:Gloria Steinem
“You can kind of judge how old a film is by the size of the cell phones.” KindFilmJudgingSizePhonesCellsCell Phone Author:Bruce Willis
“I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?” ShouldPhonesEmbarrassing Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I love Miley Cyrus. "We Can't Stop" is my ringtone. It's, like, one of eight songs that I have on my phone. I listen to it on repeat. It helps you to do anything you need to do. I'm at the gym, "We Can't Stop" is great. I'm trying to fall asleep: "We Can't Stop."” NeedsTryingHelpingSongFallPhonesEightRepeatsGymMiley Author:Molly Tarlov
“During the Mavelmania days in the late '60's I got a phone call one evening and I answered it and this voice said, "Mike Royer? This is Jack Kirby. Word is you're a pretty good inker." That's how it started.” SaidVoiceLatePhonesEveningMikePhone Calls Author:Mike Royer
“I think as a performer, it can be really great to stand on stage, especially when you have more time, but I do think about the specific people in the audience, how it's hard for them to get up and go to the bathroom, how they chose not to do other things that night and have turned off their phones and everything. So for that reason, I think it's necessary to mix it up and talk to the audience.” PeopleThinkingHardReasonNightAudienceStagePhonesGet UpMore TimePerformersReally GreatBathroomTurned Off Author:Demetri Martin
“Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.” PeopleWantFirstsPersonsMomentsMightAbleWalkingCamerasPhonesThese DaysSaying NoWalkersWalking Fast Author:Richard Branson
“Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.” FeelsMindHeartJoySpiritCreativeAliveBloodPhonesCellsImpulseCell Phone Author:Patti Smith
“The next time I move I hope I get a real easy phone number, something like 2222222. People will ask, "Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?" I'll say, "Just press two for a while, when I answer, you'll know that you've pressed two enough."” PeopleKnowsTwoRealEnoughHumorFunnyMovingNextAsksEasyAnswersNumbersPressesPhonesNext TimePhone Numbers Author:Mitch Hedberg
“You know when a company wants to use letters in their phone number, but often they'll use too many letters? "Call 1-800-I-Really-Enjoy-Brand-New-Carpeting." Too many letters, man, must I dial them all? "Hello? Hold on, man, I'm only on 'Enjoy.' How did you know I was calling? You're good, I can see why they hired you!"” KnowsMenWantI CanUseHumorFunnyEnjoyNumbersCompanyCallingLettersPhonesBrandsHelloBrand NewDid You KnowPhone Numbers Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.” MenFeelsImportantHumorFunnyPhonesButtons Author:Rita Rudner