Landline Phone Quotes

#1. Quote taken from Chapter 1
Bill hung up, grumbling to nobody in particular. Emily was about the only caller using the landline phone, and he regretted not getting rid of it. The Robinses were probably the lone holdouts on their city block to still have one.

Ed Lynskey

#2. Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Kara Swisher

#3. I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

Sara Sheridan

#4. Leaders need to see clearly in darkness, Peregrine. You already do that.

Veronica Rossi

#5. Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

Susan Orlean

#6. I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

Neil LaBute

#7. And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.

Jean Plaidy

#8. My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Frank Miller

#9. Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Mae West

#10. Like all power, it simply exists. It's the user who determines what use it will be put to.

Terry Goodkind

#11. She is a waitress at his lordships club.
My God! The Proletariat!
The lower middle classes, sir.
Well, yes, by stretching it a bit, perhaps.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#13. Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

Georgette Heyer

#14. Let's feed out tears to the dragons of misery, but let's never crawl in their mouths.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#15. The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

Nikki Giovanni

#16. Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

Ian Darke

#17. But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more!

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#18. I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Cory Monteith

#19. I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Alicia Silverstone