Phones Quotes

“Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.”
― Eloisa James, Paris in Love

“Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through its wires. If it didn't want to, it just drained your personality away until what slipped through at the other end was some cold fish of a voice, all steel, copper, plastic, no warmth, no reality. It's easy to say the wrong thing on telephones; the telephone changes your meaning on you. First thing you know, you've made an enemy. Then, of course, the telephone's such a convenient thing; it just sits there and demands you call someone who doesn't want to be called. Friends were always calling, calling, calling me. Hell, I hadn't any time of my own.”
― Ray Bradbury, Twice 22: The Golden Apples of the Sun / A Medicine for Melancholy

“I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.”
― Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads

“Evil communications corrupt good manners.”
― Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

“On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open”
― Bono

“What had happened in these ten years for there suddenly be so much to say — so much so pressing that it couldn’t wait to be said? Everywhere I walked, somebody was approaching me talking on a phone and someone was behind me talking on a phone. Inside the cars, the drivers were on the phone. When I took a taxi, the cabbie was on the phone. For one who frequently went without talking to anyone for days at a time, I had to wonder what that had previously held them up had collapsed in people to make incessant talking into a telephone preferable to walking about under no one’s surveillance, momentarily solitary, assimilating the streets through one’s animal senses and thinking the myriad thoughts that the activities of a city inspire. For me it made the streets appear comic and the people ridiculous. And yet it seemed like a real tragedy, too. To eradicate the experience of separation must inevitably have a dramatic effect. What will the consequence be? You know you can reach the other person anytime, and if you can't, you get impatient—impatient and angry like a stupid little god.”
― Philip Roth, Exit Ghost

“Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone,' Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. 'Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she can talk to you this very second, she claims she will die.”
― Francine Pascal, Rock Star's Girl

“You need to develop the ability to just be yourself and not be doing something, that's what the phones are taking away. The ability to just sit there, thats a person.”
― Louis C. K.

“Are you considering the other person you're calling when you call? Do you ask if it is a good time? If not, why not?”
― Loren Weisman

“Old media companies will be further challenged in the next 15 years, as a new wave of user-generated content washes over the Internet, thanks to the increasing availability and affordability of portable, digital-based electronic devices. The cameraphones which seemed like such novelties just a few years ago will be in everyone's purse and pocket a few years from now.”
― Ian Lamont

“I would have used the telephone on the Shabbat even though it's forbidden, and God wouldn't have held it against me because he's probably on my side in this affair.”
― Barbara Honigmann, A Love Made Out of Nothing & Zohara's Journey

“She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“I listen to the grinding whir of the clock, and the creaking of my listing bed, and the sound the phone doesn't make when it's shut off.”
― Michael Montoure, Counting From Ten