Dial Up Quotes

#1. It is possible to share a dial-up Internet connection by using software tools, but it's also possible to push a stalled car up a muddy hill.

Quentin Docter

#2. - Chickens have a twenty-minute memory. We primates cope through booze and denial. Dial up more of that denial part, you'll last longer.

Ellen Datlow

#3. What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

Vint Cerf

#4. Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

Bill Gates

#5. The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.

Ziad Doueiri

#6. I dial up the suicide prevention hotline, get a busy signal, and wonder if that's a sign of the times.

Troy James Weaver

#7. I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

Felicia Day

#8. When you're at war with the devil sometimes you gotta dial up a demon,

T.M. Frazier

#9. Press" Into Jesus to "Dial-Up" Joy, Gladness, & Happiness from the inside-out!

Kenneth Ellis

#10. Dogs and children vomit in distress. Women cry.
("Dial 'O' For Operator")

Robert Presslie

#11. Almost any negative thought pattern can be broken with thoughts of gratitude. When you "think thanks," you dial into what you have instead of what you lack. The effect is immediate - you feel positive.

Tim Sanders

#12. There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

Bill Gates

#13. To me, still my favorite 3D film is 'Dial M for Murder.' I thought that was great. Hitchcock used it, could put you in the room, which I thought was fantastic, but I'm still not a devotee of 3D.

Joe Carnahan

#14. I have a rotary phone from the sixties, it take forever to dial, which keeps me from making impulsive calls.

Natalie Standiford

#15. I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.

Joan Rivers

#16. 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

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

Melina Marchetta

#18. When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure payout and a line of tacky lingerie in the works

Saira Viola

#19. 'Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her.

AnnaLynne McCord

#20. Nods from the Gilded pointers -
Nods from the Seconds slim -
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life -
And Him -

Emily Dickinson

#21. I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.

Bre Pettis

#22. I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

Lee Trevino

#23. Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

Mira Grant

#24. When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.

Ben Shapiro

#25. Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!"

Henny Youngman

#26. It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead...

Sean Chercover

#27. People will just knock each other down to dial 911 and be the big hero.

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. There are two texts: one from Patrick and one from her mother. Patrick: asdhaosihdkqebrkb. (Butt dial? Or incredibly drunk? Ava doesn't care.)

Elin Hilderbrand

#29. Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up
and we are gone.

Edward Young

#30. Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her to pick up. If only, I thought, it was that easy for me.

Sarah Dessen

#31. I'm assuming you didn't just call me to come out of the closet to a blind woman'

'Oh, it's something I do everyday,' Kate said, enjoying Faith's sense of humor. 'I open up a phone book, randomly select a name, dial it, and when they answer, I proclaim I'm a lesbian and then hang up.

Laurie Salzler

#32. My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

Aasif Mandvi

#33. My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

Bruce Sterling

#34. Tech-savvy types had figured out how to get around the system. With radios it was easy - open up the set, cut the conveyor belt attached to the dial, and replace it with a rubber band that could turn the dial wherever you liked. Television required a little more expertise.

Barbara Demick

#35. Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.

Alice Pung

#36. The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

Plautus

#37. Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

Boz Scaggs

#38. Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.

Adam McKay

#39. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, thy dial how thy precious minutes waste

William Shakespeare

#40. The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

Jean-Claude Biver

#41. I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

Chris Isaak

#42. We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

Carl Honore

#43. I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes simple food just as appealing as anything a French chef could create.

Richard Proenneke

#44. Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

Adam Garcia

#45. Hello? ... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven ... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out.

Katt Williams

#46. These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.

Rainbow Rowell

#47. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.

Mike Bickle

#48. If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

Adam Garcia

#49. He begged Angie but the words were cut short by the strap and the dial turning up again and the sound in the air like cracking ice and shredding paper and static.

V.E Schwab

#50. You dial another college friend, Dr. Saunders, and she picks up almost immediately, 'Hi! Got a shitstorm here, what's up?

A.J. Lauer

#51. Shun such as lounge through afternoons and eves,
And on thy dial write, "Beware of thieves!"
Felon of minutes, never taught to feel
The worth of treasures which thy fingers steal,
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime,
But spare the right,
it holds my golden time!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#52. I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.

Brad Templeton

#53. Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Samuel Butler

#54. It grew steadily dimmer, God's thumb on the dial.

Laird Barron

#55. It meant a lot of driving through nothingness, and sometimes all that prickled the radio dial were low-wattage religious broadcasts: preachers who thought the aliens were Jesus coming home, or that they carried the wrath of God in their round ships' bellies.

Sean Platt

#56. I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

Martin Amis

#57. When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#58. The new technologies allow us to "dial down" human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.

Sherry Turkle

#59. Pushing your limits is what allows you to grow stronger, so if you find yourself feeling passive, it can make sense to dial it up a little. Get moving. Accomplish something small. Do something you enjoy. Embrace what moves you. And start again.

Max McKeown

#60. It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.

Bill Parcells

#61. I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

Elon Musk

#62. Pray that, above all things, the gates of light may be opened to you; for these things cannot be perceived or understood by all, but only by the man to whom God and his Christ have imparted wisdom (Dial. 7, 3).

Pope Benedict XVI

#63. You can never learn Sales by reading books and watching videos, you can only get motivated by that.. To learn Sales (telesales) dial 300+ calls daily and (direct field sales) meet at-least 5 clients daily ...
Only customers can teach u sales!

Honeya

#64. Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.

Dave Barry

#65. They say a woman's loyalty only lasts as long as it takes her to hang up and dial again.

Kim Gatlin

#66. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

Barton Booth

#67. Your Mama's so stupid"- Lassiter dematerialized and re-formed on the far side, spinning the rods- "she thinks a California dime is something you dial a phone with." ~ Lassiter

' The Shadows' page 11

J.R. Ward

#68. She was thinking about the way she'd always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.

Emily St. John Mandel

#69. Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

James Altucher

#70. Travis's siblings had seen an overdose before and knew the drill. His brother rolled him onto his side. His sister opened his mouth to make sure he wouldn't choke on his tongue, and told Travis to run next door, ask to use the neighbor's phone, and dial 911.

Charles Duhigg

#71. A woman to suck a dick... isn't a fact or mystery or complexity... it's simplicity. You just dial a number... to order a BIATCH.. .

Deyth Banger

#72. As I dial 9-1-1, I think: He's not nowhere. He's not dead. He just found that other world.

Jennifer Niven

#73. And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?

Dennis Miller

#74. The world isn't binary. Everything isn't black or white, yes or no. Sometimes it's not a switch, it's a dial. And it's not even a dial you can get your hands on; it turns without your permission or approval" -Riley

Jeff Garvin

#75. TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

John C. McGinley

#76. Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

Thomas Brooks

#77. In his examination of the young dial painters, he'd discovered a fact that was impossible to dismiss. The women were exhaling radon gas.

Deborah Blum

#78. Kara didn't feel like a dial and go coke pusher but she was a supremely good hustler

Saira Viola

#79. Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

Mary J. Blige

#80. Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of talk at crowded cocktail parties; snatches of poems heard as a radio dial spins through its arc; incomplete commandments reclaimed from shattered stones.

Dexter Palmer

#81. O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

William Shakespeare

#82. There's a setting between "hate" and "sucking his cock," Max. Find it and dial it there. Quick. Max

Avon Gale

#83. There was a pause, static, a muttered "Give me that," by an indignant female. Then the normally quiet reserved Ashlyn was demanding, "Did you just drunk dial my husband?"
"Yes, ma'am," Strider said, and the other two finally burst into laughter.

Gena Showalter

#84. I'd tried to be washed of my sin once, but I ran out of Dial. Tricky business, that.

Darynda Jones