Cellphone Quotes - Page 3

• You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones or the Internet?

  Samuel Alito

  Mean, Gay, Assessment

  "California's Proposition 8 Gets Its Day In The Supreme Court". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 26, 2013.

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• There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

  Emilio Estevez

  Travel, Cameras, World

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• A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

  Peter Diamandis

  Warrior, Technology, Years

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• The moment we stepped out into the hall, Cam's apartment door flung open. Ollie appeared, a cellphone in one hand and Raphael wiggling in the other. "Smile!" he shouted as he snapped a picture on his phone. "It's like my two kids are going to prom.

  J. Lynn

  Kids, Phones, Doors

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• Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?" "Not really," said Simon. "Magnus is wearing lederhosen." "And yet, still no.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sitting, Hey, Want

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• He went over to the leathers and picked them up. Nice Catholic boy like him didn't know much about BDSM, but it looked like he was going to learn firsthand. Taking out his cellphone, he hit V, but didn't expect an answer. He guessed GPS was going to have to come in handy once again.

  J.R. Ward

  Nice, Boys, Gps

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• I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Unexpected, Refrigerators

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• I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

  Paul Theroux

  Thinking, Serious, Conversation

  "I don't think there's genius in my writing". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

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• Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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• I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

  John Cusack

  Coffee, People, Computer

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• These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

  Billy Corgan

  Tedium, These Days, Competing

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Interview with Stereo IQ, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

  Ray Bradbury

  Machines, Internet

  "Ray Bradbury Hates Big Government: ‘Our Country Is in Need of a Revolution’" by Susan King, herocomplex.latimes.com. August 16, 2010.

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• President Obama is in China. Today he visited the kids who make our cellphones.

  David Letterman

  Kids, President, Today

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• I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and the power of Perfidia is that it's the result of complete immersion. I was there for the two years that it took me to write that book.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Writing, Years

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

  David Mitchell

  Phones, People, Too Late

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.70, Vintage

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• At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

  Joshua Bell

  Upset, Halls, Music Hall

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• I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable.

  Linus Torvalds

  Use, Androids, Made

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• The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?

  Mike Rosen

  Children, Exercise, Evil

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• The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

  Manu Joseph

  Children, People, Triumph

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• Over the weekend it came out that the U.S. has been listening in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone since 2002. At this point, I feel like the only world leader our government DOESN'T listen to is President Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Government, Leader

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• An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Iphone, Phones

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.51, Prabhat Prakashan

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• When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Girlfriend, Years, People

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say. Gang violence and drug trafficking, they say, are increasingly being orchestrated online, allowing inmates to keep up criminal behavior even as they serve time.

  Kim Severson

  Phones, Internet Access, Games

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• So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter or fail, but you always know that you pushed hard and aimed high. Take a leap of faith. Fear not. Courage is the ultimate career move.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Careers, Leap Of Faith

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• I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.

  Vaclav Smil

  Book, Reading, Past

  "Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read". Interview with Ritchie King, qz.com. August 08, 2013.

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