Landline Quotes

#1. than this landline.

Carolyn Brown

#2. Old-fashioned girl that I am, I still have a landline, though it rarely rings - and when it does, especially without warning, there's rarely anything good on the other end.

Meghan Daum

#3. It's more for me as with going into a forest: if you sit quietly for a long time, the life around you emerges. As the world grows ever more clamorous, my hunger for silence steepens. I unplug the landline.

Jane Hirshfield

#4. 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

#5. Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown.

Sherry Turkle

#6. Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

Reed Hastings

#7. Think of your credit score as a very primitive version of what we will see in the coming Reputation Economy; if your credit score is like a traditional landline telephone handset, then future reputation scores will be like the newest iPhone.

Michael Fertik

#8. 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

#9. You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

Lauren Groff

#10. 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

#11. She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline
maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents' generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

Glenn Greenwald

#15. Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

John Sununu

#16. But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.

Isabelle Huppert

#17. 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

#18. I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

Tibor Fischer

#19. But maybe this was why. Maybe she was why. Now.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. Fine," he moped. "I hope you're very happy together. Cute little hobbit couple with lots of roly-poly hobbit babies." Georgie turned back to him, but didn't stop walking away. "I'm not hobbity.

Rainbow Rowell

#21. Her mind drew him in, hid his image at its center, folded over him, the world slid into place, the chaos ceased.

Jessica Khoury

#22. She spent the whole time in a fog. Lying in her bed, deliberately not calling him. Why should she call him? What was she supposed to say - sorry? Georgie wasn't sorry. She wasn't sorry that she knew what she wanted to do with her life. She wasn't sorry that she was making it happen.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

Gerald Vizenor

#24. And what does it matter where my journey began, as long as I end it with you?

Carrie Anne Noble

#25. God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Michel De Montaigne

#26. I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

Rainbow Rowell

#27. said once that you were not my equal, but my better.

Sylvain Reynard

#28. Inclusion and fairness in the workplace ... is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.

Alexis Herman

#29. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden
that is human sympathy.

Frederic Farrar

#30. Neal wasn't happy, and Georgie was why.

Rainbow Rowell