#phones

I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#being #checking #constantly #east #east village

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting. ↗

— Robert Quine

#fighting #generation #going #headphones #holds

What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when the phone rings. It’s like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger. Now we answer, “What happened? Is someone tied up in the old sawmill?” “No, it’s Becky. I just called to say hi.” “Well you scared me half to death. You can’t just pick up the phone and try to talk to me like that. Don’t the tips of your fingers work? ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#humor #phones #texting #communication

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#business #business community #community #directly #else

I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else. ↗

— Vera Wang

#answered #back #best #businesses #calls

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#cell phones #communication #diminished #e-mails #electronic

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#buy #day #i #line #me

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#around #attention #disconnect #focus #immediate

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#chance #filing #find #firm #gave

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#before #calls #contacts #hard #how