#phones

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#common #contact #din #horrible #i

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#cd-rom #check #databases #everyone #existing

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.' ↗

— Cat Osterman

#donor #find #give #had #headphones

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#faxes #i #myself #only #only time

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones. ↗

— Don Rickles

#dummy #i #only #phones #who

Dinner conversations with telemarketers are so much livelier than saying you’re not interested and then checking your new message afterwards. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #loneliness #phones #telemarketing #funny

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#about #drum #every #every time #everybody

I can't hear anything, John. Please, would you put on your headphones? ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#headphones #hear #i #john #please

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks. ↗

— Tim Dorsey

#cell-phones #chicks #commercials #hot-chicks #life

I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business. ↗

— Charles Norris Williamson

#telephones #business