All time Quote by Judith Martin

Sometimes you have to distance yourself from all the folks that only calls when they need something.

— Anonymous

Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world…

— Judith Martin

It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than…

— Judith Martin

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems…

— Mary Schmich

If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind of scary.

— Sherry Turkle

The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe,…

— Janice Galloway

There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to…

— Steve Martin

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

— Melina Marchetta

...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a…

— Lynne Truss

People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But…

— Joanna Coles

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And…

— Patricia Wentworth

It doesn't take a cell phone to make a person rude. There are rude people all over the place. But people are learning. I…

— Martin Cooper