Phone Calls Quotes - Page 10

• Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

  Alison Gopnik

  Phones, Mail, Faster

  Alison Gopnik (2016). “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children”, p.229, Macmillan

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• The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

  Bear Grylls

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Uganda, Phones

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• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Bob Woodward

  Fear, Night, Phones

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• If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.

  Patti Stanger

  Successful, Men, Phones

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• There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Phones, Long

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.

  Nick Hornby

  Hurt, Phones, Years

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• Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.

  Tom Robbins

  Phones, Air, Breathing

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.74, Bantam

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• In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: "That must be nice."

  Beth Ditto

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  "I'm 30 and feel under huge pressure to have kids. What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2007.

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• Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Phones, Data, Soon Enough

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• If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

  Regina Brett

  Writing, Phones, Order

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Technology, Phones, Years

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• Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

  Daniel Goleman

  Morning, Writing, Phones

  "The Benefits of a Productive Cocoon" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Sure, end-to-end encryption means that whether it's a phone call we're on or an email message we're sending or any form of electronic communication, that the content of that communication is encrypted from your device, such as your phone or PC, unto the other person's device at the other side, wherever they might be on the planet Earth.

  Rod Beckstrom

  Communication, Mean, Phones

  "The Cybersecurity Argument For And Against Device Encryption". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

  Bo Derek

  Phones, Middle, Found

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

  Chris Colfer

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The police didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in a state where some people disappeared forever.

  Trevor Noah

  Phones, People, Scary

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Liars, Character

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet.

  Taylor Swift

  Phones, Records, West

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

  Carrie Fisher

  Children, Phones, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Phones, People

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2012.

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• If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.

  Patricia Arquette

  Couple, Good Friend, Phones

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm talking to people all of the time. So it hasn't really had a big impact. Access is never my main concern anyway. If you keep digging and making phone calls you can get stories and not have to rely on the good graces of the Pentagon spokesperson. I am not in his good graces.

  Michael Hastings

  Impact, Phones, Talking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Hurt, Morning, Phones

  "Francis Ford Coppola Talks 'Twixt' & Competing with his Former Self". Interview with Adam Pockross, yahoo.com. July 24, 2013.

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