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Phones Quotes

How we've talked, then and now.

These phones quotes trace the shift from calling home from a payphone and reversing the charges to today's constant mobile connection. See our Connection quotes for more.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the...

Quotes by Will Ferrell

Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

Quotes by Tamara Ecclestone

Basic mobile phones can circumvent lack of broadband access, but only to a certain extent.

Quotes by Tae Yoo

We have Windows 8 machines for our office. All of our staff have Windows phones. Some have desktops. We have a couple of folks who are using a Surface. I use a Surface.

Quotes by Suzan DelBene

Connection Quotes

I was MCing in the playground, spitting lyrics over mobile phones - Sony Ericsson, Walkmans, W810s, the Teardrop Nokia phones, all of that. Vital equipment! I never even had a DJ set where a DJ's playing vinyl, and I'm spitting.

Quotes by Stormzy

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers.

Quotes by Steven Cojocaru

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

Quotes by Sherry Turkle

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

Quotes by Sarah Dessen

I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill.

Quotes by Rumaan Alam

Emotion Quotes

I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle.

Quotes by Robert Scoble

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

Quotes by Peter Diamandis

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

Quotes by Patrick Carman

I periodically lose my phone, damage my phone, have my phone stolen - what ever happens to mobile phones happens to me.

Quotes by Mike Ashley

My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain.

Quotes by Mary Lou Jepsen

Identity Quotes

The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.

Quotes by Martin Cooper

I have a SIM card ejector tool everywhere I go. It's probably not a normal thing to have, but as a guy who's moving between phones often, I kind of have to have one.

Quotes by Marques Brownlee

I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.

Quotes by Marcia Gay Harden

I started on the phones, taking orders, and then I did the toppings, making the pizzas, cutting and boxing them - everything, really.

Quotes by Lucy Bronze

Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.

Quotes by Liam Payne

Routine Quotes

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these phones quotes mention early experiences with phones?
Yes, one recalls calling parents from a public phone box and reversing the charges, before mobile phones were common.
Is answering phones described as an enjoyable job here?
No, one quote lists answering phones among a string of jobs the speaker disliked while working ordinary jobs before finding success.
Does losing or damaging phones come up?
Yes, one quote jokes about a personal pattern of losing, damaging, or having phones stolen, describing it as simply what happens around them.
Is there a quote about phones and internet access?
One points out that stripped-down, no-frills handsets can serve as a partial stand-in where broadband access is limited, though the fix only goes so far.
How does this topic relate to Connection quotes?
Phones quotes focus on the device and its role in daily life, while Connection quotes look more broadly at staying in touch with others.

One quote also notes that stripped-down handsets can partly stand in for spotty internet access, a workaround people rarely think about. Pair this with our Routine or Identity quotes.