Cell Phone Quotes - Page 7

• I sprung you because I've got a message for you" "doesn't your family own a cell phone company?" "only a little one

  Ally Carter

  Phones, Cells, Littles

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.

  Sadie Calvano

  Powerful, Technology, Phones

  "Finding Play Through Work, with Sadie Calvano, star of CBS's Mom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• 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."

  Melinda Gates

  Numbers, Gps, Phones

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• 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.

  A. J. McLean

  Phones, Cells, Fans

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• All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

  Marc Goodman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

  Alan Bishop

  Clothes, Phones, Cells

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

  Jonathon Keats

  Phones, Cells

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Kevin Drum

  Fighting, Phones, Cells

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• 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.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Phones, Cells, Law

  Source: www.gov.za

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• You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dad, Mean, Cat

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

  Ewan McGregor

  Sorry, Kids, Parenting

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• I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.

  Brigid Berlin

  Phones, Cells, Google

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Simple, Squirrels

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• Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Phones, Empty Rooms

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• It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

  Bob Newhart

  Phones, Cells, Talking

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• Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Mean, Phones, Cells

  "Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

  Kenny Chesney

  Phones, Cells, Mind

  "Kerry Washington’s Reason For Taking A Digital Detox Is Perfect" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2016.

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• 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.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Phones, Cells, Firsts

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• I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Daughter, Mother, Teenage

  "David vs. Goliath: Internet Entrepreneurship vs. Corporate America" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2011.

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• If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

  Al Franken

  Phones, Cells, Years

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• 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.

  Greg Mottola

  Italian, Thinking, Youth

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• I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

  Kirk Douglas

  Phones, Cells, Play

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• When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

  Tina Fey

  School, Phones, Cells

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• You go to a restaurant with a friend for lunch and the next table, two people are sitting opposite each other. They don't talk! All they do is look at the screens of their cell phones and show it to the person that they're with. And when people do that to me, they want me to look at pictures on their cell phone? I can't even look at little things like that. I think it is all crazy.

  Brigid Berlin

  Crazy, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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