Quotes About Answering Machines

#1. I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

Drew Barrymore

#2. In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

Judy Horacek

#3. She never answers during the day," Max explained. "She lets her machine pick up."
People like you are the reason other people get answering machines to begin with," Miles told him. "In fact, people like you are driving a lot of modern technology.

Richard Russo

#4. The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

Bob Hicok

#5. People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Mike Myers

#6. For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.

Letitia Baldrige

#7. All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. I got an answering machine for my phone ... Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up ... they hear a recording of a busy signal.

Steven Wright

#10. I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.

Brendan Dooling

#11. We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.

Theodore Kaczynski

#12. Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#13. You,
quiet and alone in your kitchen, cigaretteless.
Me, left tapping on your rain-streaked window,

wanting you to know that everything is going
to get better, and really hoping that it does.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#14. Do you ever leave a message for somebody and the answering machine cuts you off, and you have to decide whether you should not call back, or call back and appear like a stalker? "Hi. It's me again. I forgot to tell you that I'm going to kill you. Because I'm the freak who keeps calling and calling."

Jim Gaffigan

#15. I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

Igor Levit

#16. At this stage they were killers. I mean this stage in our mutually culpable history. Who

Peter Heller

#17. I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

Sunil Mittal

#18. I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

Douglas Cardinal

#19. Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

Jimi Hendrix

#20. Though slow to quarrel, and for sport killing nothing that lived, they were doughty at bay, and at need could still handle arms.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.

Stephen Baker

#22. You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Charlie Parker