Quotes About Telemarketers

#1. The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

John Calvin

#2. Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Virtually every community in the country has legislation regulating door-to-door trade, yet telemarketers have run unchecked for years. The industry in general uses all sorts of slimy tricks to make sure you never make it to the do-not-call list.

Julie Ann Dawson

#4. After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

Claire McCaskill

#5. The do-not-call list puts the responsibility where it should be: on the telemarketers. If they want to make the calls, they should be the ones doing the work to ensure fairness.

Julie Ann Dawson

#6. Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.

James Gleick

#7. I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

Seth Lipsky

#8. I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Caitlin Moran

#9. Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby.

Bill Cosby

#10. I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

John Shelton Reed

#11. When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

Adam DeVine

#12. The telemarketers who called her up now seemed either desperate or resigned to the point of a mindless drone, until Judith, who had time on her hands and ice in her heart, engaged them in dark conversations that always got her removed from their lists.

Paul Cornell

#13. Strategic Thinking starts with the end in mind.

Pearl Zhu

#14. Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.

Charles Duhigg

#15. Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow". That's because they hate me and made me sleep in the linen closet subsisting only on bath salts and Scope).

Sloane Crosley

#16. A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.

Rick Warren

#17. Lately, I am receiving numerous calls each night from telemarketers. They're calling with the frequent urgency of dumped boyfriends. At this point, I cannot help but wonder, is the entire telemarketing industry one big, jilted, clingy gay guy?

Augusten Burroughs

#18. There are bad people in the world: Murderers and psychopaths and telemarketers who won't take no for an answer.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#19. Every storm runs out of rain.

Gary Allan

#20. OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

Jack Nicholson

#21. Adventure is an attitude, not a behavior.

Luci Swindoll