Quote by Jenny B. Jones

“I recently met a teenager who didn't recognize a telephone busy signal when she heard it; she had never experienced the phenomenon.”

— Maciej Kranz

“There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.”

— Mark Capell

“...these phones are not for transmitting literature; they are news lines, dedicated to the who, the what, the when, the where, and sometimes, perhaps,…

— Amy Rowland 2

“The signal has been sent and ignored so many times that it has learned to send itself more quietly.”

— Asif Kabir

“Plenty of people on the street but all glued to their phones. Everyone was perpetually connected, but to what? She”

— Laura Griffin

“We crave connection, but so much of the time we are not alive, neutralized. Who are you when you’re listening to the radio in…

— Russell Brand

“You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would,…

— Brock Clarke

“We all have our own signals we're listening for, or trying not to hear.”

— Lauren Elkin

“IF OUR PHONE CONVERSATION GETS DISCONNECTED, THERE’S NO NEED TO CALL BACK I get it. You get it. We take forever getting off the…

— Mindy Kaling

“The quiet lines matter as much as the noisy ones.”

— Colum McCann

“When you get the message, it's time to hang up the phone.”

— Alan Watts

“Within two separate but adjacent rooms, we tuned two radios to different stations and went back to our work, having once again reassured each…

— Hope Jahren