Quotes About Phone Conversations

#1. I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.

Chellie Pingree

#2. the number of intercepted phone conversations and e-mail messages doubled in six years, from 265,937 in 2007 to 539,864 in 2012.

Andrei Soldatov

#3. I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

Terry McAuliffe

#4. In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#5. The phone conversations about a possible TV series of 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' stretch back years, but now that the moment has come, now that I am actually here at Wentworth Woodhouse, I lose my bearings.

Susanna Clarke

#6. Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her.

David Foster Wallace

#7. We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

Joe Manganiello

#8. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

George Orwell

#9. They record thoughts and overheard conversations, as well as maps of their personal paths, phone numbers for hotels, restaurant recommendations, airline flight numbers. Eventually,

Danny Gregory

#10. Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

Simon Sinek

#11. You owe the world a load of wisdom to dispense. If you lay hands on the grace, make it happen. They world needs you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

John Sayles

#13. And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Jason Reitman

#14. Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

Henri Poincare

#15. The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.

Lynne Truss

#16. I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

Bill Vaughan

#17. You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.

Matt Holliday

#18. You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

Jane Pauley

#19. There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

Andy Behrman

#20. There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.

Mike DeWine

#21. The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.

Brian Acton

#22. I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

Jim Crace

#23. Only a Christian culture could have produced a Voltaire or a Nietzsche. I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian Faith.

Norman Davies

#24. When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?

Jen Lancaster

#25. I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

Alan Alda

#26. For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

Anthony Weiner

#27. Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

Marianne Williamson

#28. Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything.

Jo Walton

#29. John McCain was a prisoner of war.

Fred Thompson

#30. Polish has developed unimpeded; someone put their foot out and tripped English. The human grammar is a fecund weed, like grass. Languages like English, Persian, and Mandarin Chinese are mowed lawns, indicative of an interruption in natural proliferation.

John McWhorter

#31. A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

Mario Monicelli

#32. I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#33. I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

Gavrilo Princip

#34. E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

Walter Kirn

#35. He should talk to her - not on the phone where so much could be hidden, but face to face. He wanted to see her. Look into her eyes, no matter how painful, and find the truth.

Jennifer Beckstrand