Quotes About Telephone Numbers

#1. There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.

W.G. Sebald

#2. Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

Kevin Mitnick

#3. I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers.

Silvio Berlusconi

#4. The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

Adam Rickitt

#5. The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Caitlyn Jenner

#6. Here's an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?

Douglas Adams

#7. In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.

Valentino Rossi

#8. The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Edsger Dijkstra

#9. Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Ogden Nash

#10. Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.

Lilly Dache

#11. If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. To me it appears that you have simply exchanged one controlling environment for another. I am worried that you are not free here at all. You have simply been given a greater cage in which to roam." My

Tillie Cole

#13. There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

Leo Buscaglia

#14. I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

John Maynard Keynes

#15. You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'?

Jerzy Pilch

#16. Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

Frank Zappa

#17. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.

Jules Verne

#18. Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

Joshua Foer

#19. I'm a Taurus. To the bone.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#20. A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

Vivien Leigh

#21. I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

John Cheever

#22. Bereft of vision to guide the city's citizens forward, he could only draw them inward and backward, to encourage them to fight over imagined foes and manufactured hurt.

I.M. Savage

#23. Maybe I shouldn't scare off my date so quickly by shooting guns and telling stories about vomit, but, hey, the sooner he knows the real me, the better.

Vicki Lesage

#24. Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

Ned Sublette