#phones

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything. ↗

— Will Oldham

#down #faraway #go #i #movie

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#constantly #house #kind #pardon #phones

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting. ↗

— Robert Quine

#fighting #generation #going #headphones #holds

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer. ↗

— Bar Refaeli

#around #because #cell #cell phones #choose

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. ↗

— John Sununu

#been #business #digital #disrupted #distribution

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country. ↗

— Steve Largent

#cell #cell phones #costs #country #how

Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me. ↗

— Adam Nevill

#communication

What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when the phone rings. It’s like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger. Now we answer, “What happened? Is someone tied up in the old sawmill?” “No, it’s Becky. I just called to say hi.” “Well you scared me half to death. You can’t just pick up the phone and try to talk to me like that. Don’t the tips of your fingers work? ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#humor #phones #texting #communication

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears. ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor

You ever notice if you call someones cell phone they won't answer but if you text them seconds later they will. "The Power of your Thumbs compels You! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#communication-quotes #life-reality #communication