Instant Message Quotes

#1. E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

Nora Ephron

#2. Questions you can wait hours to learn the answers to are fine to put in an email. Questions that require answers in the next few minutes can go into an instant message. For crises that truly merit a sky-is-falling designation, you can use that old-fashioned invention called the telephone. With

Jason Fried

#3. One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

Jacqueline Leo

#4. It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.

Mark McKinnon

#5. Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or speaking over an instant message chat.

Christopher Herz

#6. Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.

Caterina Scorsone

#7. I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe. I did that when I was younger and still do that to this day.

Suzy Amis

#8. Reinforce positive energy.

Keith Grafman

#9. For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

Norah Jones

#10. Rejection is inevitable. The goal is to minimize it.

Keith Grafman

#11. Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

Augustine Of Hippo

#12. Personalize, personalize and personalize more

Keith Grafman

#13. Some people simply want company.

Patricia Cornwell

#14. Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.

Deb Caletti

#15. Tyrion: Careful now, Shagga, you've cut him.
Shagga: Dolf fathered warriors, not barbers.

George R R Martin

#16. You aren't looking for a pen pal, and if need be, say that.

Keith Grafman

#17. Reassurance is a good way to reinforce

Keith Grafman

#18. Effective communication is effective communication, regardless of the setting.

Keith Grafman

#19. While there is always someone more attractive, your goal should be to present yourself as the most intriguing.

Keith Grafman

#20. If you bring something up, it's imperative to explain your thought.

Keith Grafman

#21. Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.

Joe Dante

#22. It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

Cheri Huber

#23. Always try to avoid being limited by means of communication.

Keith Grafman

#24. No, it wasn't the words so much as the fact that she used an authentic label maker to send me the message. Damn, I felt an instant connection to this woman

Morgan Parker