Cellphones Quotes
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“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
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“Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.”
― Zero History
― Zero History
“I don’t agree on spending time with someone who is more attached to his cell phone than he is to me.”
― Honest
― Honest
“We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.”
― Honest
― Honest
“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.”
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“The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.”
― The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
― The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
“Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself 'what a prick.' Nowadays, an eyebrow hardly even flutters when we see a ten-year-old child happily texting away. You probably wouldn't notice anyway; you'd be too busy downloading an app that could definitively pinpoint who it was that had just farted in your tube carriage.”
― Nerd Do Well
― Nerd Do Well
“What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.”
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“I'm fine. I'm fine, he says, and fine, fine repeats in his head as he escapes back into the chill. Around him, a spin of bodies in dark coats, tapping thumbs on pads, pressing phones to heads, settling buds into ear canals, projecting an invisible shield of music as they move through the crowd, digital companionship warmer than the bodies around them. Every soul on the street is sunk within its body. Sometimes Bit imagines that he, alone, bears witness to the world.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
“Look, cell phone geolocation data shows very few clustering anomalies for this hour and climate. And that’s holding up pretty much across all major metro areas. It’s gone down six percentage points since news of the Karachi workshop hit the Web, and it’s trending downward. If people are protesting, they aren’t doing it in the streets.” He circled his finger over a few clusters of dots. “Some potential protest knots in Portland and Austin, but defiance-related tag cloud groupings in social media put us within the three-sigma rule—meaning roughly sixty-eight percent of the values lie within one standard deviation of the mean.”
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“I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every time your picture is taken, a part of your soul is stolen strikes me as a certain truth, because I feel my spirit being sucked out of me, into hundreds of all-seeing lenses that simply want to capture my fear, my anger, my performance.”
― Nerve
― Nerve
“I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a cell phone case.”
― Fire Starter
― Fire Starter
“حتىٰ الآن لا تصلح الهواتف الجوَّالة إلَّا للأزواج الخائنين ، الذين يتمن��ّوْن تجنُّب استخدام هواتف المنزل ، و ربّما للسمكريّين أيضًا ، لأنّها تتيحُ الاتصال بهم في أيَّةِ لحظة في أثناء سَيْرهم”
― Numero zero
― Numero zero
“What in tarnation is a cell phone and service? I have a house phone right there in front of you. Those aren't mountain's dear, those are hills, you want mountains got to go further than this." Amber replied in her deepest country voice.”
― She's My Kind Of Country
― She's My Kind Of Country
“Ah, the days when your desktop had less than half the memory on your current phone.”
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأنّها تكلِّف ثروة ولا يقدر عليها إلا القليلون. وَ ثانيًا ، سيكتشف الناس بعد قليل أنّه ليس من الضروري حقًّا الاتصال بكلّ الناس وَ في كلّ وقت ، و سيفتقدون الخصوصيّة و التحادث وجهًا لوجه ، زيادةً على أنّهم سيكتشفون في نهاية الشهر أنّ قائمة الحساب بلغت أرقامًا فادحة”
― Numero zero
― Numero zero
“It’s such a shame. So many people today rely on their cellphones. No one remembers phone numbers anymore.”
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“The cellphone barometer is my method of judging audience engagement with a movie in a cinema. The number and frequency of phones lighting up the dark auditorium (or lack of them) tells you if the film is working or not.”
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“Broadcast and satellite television and radio, the global positioning system (GPS), cellphones, and WiFi have all come at the expense of the next generation.”
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“If Woodstock happened today, you would be invited on social media. Websites would livestream it. Rolling Stone would not cover it. You would read “The 5 Craziest Parts of Woodstock (Number 4 Will SHOCK You).” Instead of lighters, we would hold up cell phones, so we could record the moment instead of inhabiting it.”
― Holidays with Bigfoot
― Holidays with Bigfoot
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