I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. — Fred Couples Copy Share Image
Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call. — Bob Hicok Copy Share Image
[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting. — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Since I've made it to 87 so far, obviously my two kids and my seven grandchildren haven't been too hard on me.… — George Burns Copy Share Image
People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine… — Brendan Dooling Copy Share Image
What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Do you ever leave a message for somebody and the answering machine cuts you off, and you have to decide whether you… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“She never answers during the day," Max explained. "She lets her machine pick up." People like you are the reason other people… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until… — Nicci French Copy Share Image
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring -… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up .… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image