Text messaging Quote by Patrick Carman

“And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph?”

— Michael Finkel

“What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“People have become so accustomed to texting that they're actually startled when the phone rings. It's like we suddenly all have Bat-phones. If it…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“I thought you weren’t allowed to have a phone,” he says. “Or was that a really pathetic excuse to avoid giving me your number?”…

— Colleen Hoover

“He turns the screen around to face me. “What the hell kind of texts are these?” He turns the phone around and reads one.…

— Colleen Hoover

“Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable‒but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.”

— Graham Greene

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's…

— Pat Gillick

“...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

“You know, we used to be stuck writing letters to each other and waiting weeks or even months to hear back. The phone is…

— Julie Murphy

“There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he…

— Raymond Chandler

“Phone convos and clever texts are fine for a while but not forever. She needed that human touch.”

— John Hunt

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what…

— Lynne Truss