Answer Your Phone Quotes

#1. If you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

Arman

#2. It took you long enough to answer your phone." "It's my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don't answer it at all.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Hey, Reece."
There was nothing but silence for a while and I waited.
Then Reece said, "Expected it to happen eventually, darlin', but didn't expect it to hit me that hard the first time I heard a man answer your phone.

Kristen Ashley

#4. When you chronically interrupt your time with whom ever you're with to answer your phone/text you are saying that the caller is more important.

Jayce O'Neal

#5. Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business.

Susan Ward

#6. In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#7. Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Jack Lemmon

#8. I mean am I crazy or is it a little rude to answer your phone in the middle of a fucking song?
February 13, 2008. Milan Blood Ball

Jared Leto

#9. All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

George W. Bush

#10. Why do extroverts have voicemail? To never miss a call.

Why do introverts have voicemail? To never answer the phone.

Devora Zack

#11. Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!

Donna Brazile

#12. Was it possible to fall for someone you'd met only once and communicated with only through phone, chat, and text? I had sleepless nights wondering, and every time I thought about it, the answer was yes, yes, yes! And I refused to think of it as infatuation.

Claire Betita De Guzman

#13. And no you're not that important that you must always dismiss your current company to answer whomever is on the phone. Seriously, you're not.

Jayce O'Neal

#14. Remember to never answer a phone during sex, even if you hilariously answer with 'I can't talk now, I'm going into a tunnel'.

Jimmy Carr

#15. Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

Seth Godin

#16. Who is this and what do you want?"
"Is that how you answer the phone to every number you don't recognize?" Ash demanded.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. Son, if you stopped to answer the phone, then you weren't doing whatever well enough and you need to get back to her and do it better. Don't answer the phone next time.

Georgia Cates

#18. The phone ring so I go in the kitchen and answer it. Got a little

Kathryn Stockett

#19. Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.

Meghan Daum

#20. Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

David Pogue

#21. If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#22. Whether it's a hospital or wherever ... we can deliver to anyone with a phone book."
A phone book.
Such a simple and basic answer.
When the chef picked up the phone and said, "Russia Sushi, how can I help you?" did she take him literally?

Ryohgo Narita

#23. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

James Thurber

#24. I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

Davy Jones

#25. Abel caught my eyes, and half a second later he was bending over me, his face an inch away.
"Why are you crying ?" he demanded to know, then didn't wait for my answer. He ripped the phone out of my hand, straightened , put it to his ear, and clipped, "You made her cry.

Kristen Ashley

#26. President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it is a bureaucracy." Don

Robert M. Gates

#27. I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing.

Steve Huffman

#28. I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.

Willie Geist

#29. I start imagining how the conversation will go, where he calls you, and you answer, and he's silent except for breathing and a few grunts, and you think you have some creeper on the line, hang up on him, and he crushes the phone in his huge, heartbroken hand and never leaves his cabin again." Ellie

Katie Ruggle

#30. The iPhone will maybe become more of a video-conferencing experience - you pick up your phone, you answer it, you'll be talking to someone looking at their face.

Chad Hurley

#31. I've got a phone,
answer machine, TV set,
computer, hand grenade
- everything you need
to run a business in
Los Angeles.

Ice-T

#32. Cole made a hissing sound. "Are you inside yet? God bless America and all her sons. What is taking you so long?"
The front door was locked. "Here, talk to Grace"
"Mommy isn't going to give a different answer than Daddy," Cole said, but I handed her the phone anyway.

Maggie Stiefvater

#33. I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

Robert Smith

#34. When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.

DMX

#35. The next time I move I hope I get a real easy phone number, something like 2222222. People will ask, "Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?" I'll say, "Just press two for a while, when I answer, you'll know that you've pressed two enough."

Mitch Hedberg

#36. Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Douglas Coupland

#37. If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

Viggo Mortensen

#38. As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

Christopher Nolan

#39. Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

Nick Hornby

#40. Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.

Mark Consuelos

#41. For a moment it seemed that her impeccably impractical education - in which she'd learned about Middle English and Duchamp's urinal and sub-Saharan droughts but had never been taught how to apply for a credit card or answer an office phone - wasn't useless after all.

Ralph Sassone

#42. Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Miles Davis

#43. Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

Aryn Kyle

#44. Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.

Sam Altman

#45. It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it's not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another.

Seth Shostak

#46. You ever notice if you call someones cell phone they won't answer but if you text them seconds later they will. The Power of your Thumbs compels You!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#47. I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

Joshua Cohen

#48. Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon)
Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. Karma can be an ill-timed mistress who always calls when your Mother-in-law is the first to answer the phone ... . and it would be a completely sad story had it not been so surreally hilarious.

Josh Stern

#50. If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

Kimberley Nixon

#51. I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

Ruth Rendell

#52. People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

Maurice Sendak

#53. Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer - the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That's all you need.

Anne Lamott

#54. By the way, Reb, about the singing. What gives? Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Billie Holiday sang the blues. You sang ... everything. You could sing the phone book. I would call and say how are you feeling, and you'd answer, The old gray rabbi, ain't what he used to be ...

Mitch Albom

#55. Later, in her suite at the Stanhope, Ruth resisted calling Eddie. Besides, at the New York Athletic Club, they probably refused to answer the phone after a certain hour. Or else they would demand to know, when you called, if you were wearing a coat and tie.

John Irving

#56. I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

Martin Parr

#57. Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two ...

Richard Russo

#58. You are playing cards with three Jeffs. One is your father, one is your
brother, and the other is your current boyfriend. All of them have seen
you naked and heard you talking in your sleep. Your boyfriend Jeff gets
up to answer the phone. To them he is a mirror, but to you he is a room.

Richard Siken

#59. Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Jack Kerouac

#60. I'm a little let down," Laurel said. "I expect a sexy breakfast story to have sex, not just your very pretty boobs." "I'm not done. Part two begins when I'm back home working, and carelessly answer the phone. My mother.

Nora Roberts

#61. You wonder why I don't
answer your 3 a.m. phone calls.
When you say "I miss you",
I begin to undress myself out of habit.

Sierra DeMulder

#62. Always answer the phone. You never know if it's a hit calling.

Jerry Wexler

#63. I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too? - Emerson

Liza M. Wiemer

#64. Wives are people who think it's against the law not to answer the phone when it rings.

Rita Rudner

#65. I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

Mike Wallace

#66. A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.

Andy Serkis

#67. Zane's tongue flicked over the head of his cock, and Ty bit his lip against a moan. "Oh God. You're either having sex or being shot at, aren't you?" Deuce asked with dread. "Why do you answer the phone?" "Got

Abigail Roux

#68. Just because you're home, you don't have to answer the phone.

Suzy Becker

#69. Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.

Eckhart Tolle

#70. My children are now all grown. Some are in their 60s. But when they call and I answer the phone, they say, 'How are you?' And before I can answer, they ask, 'Is Mother there?'

Gordon B. Hinckley

#71. I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

Fred Couples

#72. Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

F. Murray Abraham