Dial Tone Quotes

#1. A pause followed my greeting. Then "We're watching you " whispered the voice on the other end.
"Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? "
Silence. Then dial tone.
These younger demons. So easily discouraged.

Josh Lanyon

#2. I twist like a flower
at the sound of your voice
But you leave the receiver
static most days
You have me growing into a dial tone

All it would take is your voice
saying my name
And I would behead myself
to be carried around on your lapel

Kait Rokowski

#3. Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.

Lynn Coady

#4. Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. Left alone with the dial tone ... excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Melina Marchetta

#7. You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. Perhaps the book opened a door; books have a way of causing ripples.

Erika Swyler

#9. One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Edward Abbey

#10. HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#11. I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Carl Forti

#12. I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority ... in less than 20 years.

Elon Musk

#13. A man of one book, a student of many.

John Wesley

#14. To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

James Frey

#15. If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.

Tony Parsons

#16. Maybe okay will be our always." "Okay,

John Green

#17. Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Bill Vaughan

#18. Yes, it is a high price, but it has been paid. It is wonderful to be able to surrender to Him, who bought us. With body, soul, and spirit. And to lose your life for Him. It means you gain your life.

Corrie Ten Boom

#19. Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms of writing but not for dialogue. Another mistake is speechifying. Three sentences at a time is tops, yet many beginners write speeches that go on and on.

Sol Stein

#20. Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

Sparky Anderson

#21. If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Elbert Hubbard