Quotes

Published June 6, 2009

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
— Fran Lebowitz

 

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
— Earl Long

 

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
— Tom Hanks

 

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
— Ted Turner

 

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
— Richard Branson

 

I use my cell phone as much as I can — I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy.
— Lisa Loeb

 

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
—- Bob Newhart


The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.
— Jam Master Jay

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