Cell Phones Quotes

“You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.”
― Catherine Coulter, TailSpin

“Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives”
― Munia Khan

“Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

“Mum's mobile was the most immoblie cell phone in the world. It often lived on the top of the bookshelf closest to the front door. It was there so she'd see it before she left the house. The trouble was, Mum was alwayd leaving the house in a mad rush and the mobile stayed put.”
― Catherine Bateson, Boyfriend Rules of Good Behavior

“What's making us uncomfortable...is this feeling of losing control - a feeling that instantiates itself in a dozen different ways each day, such as when we tune out with our phone during our child's bath time, or lose our ability to enjoy a nice moment without a frantic urge to document it for a virtual audience.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine.”
― Blake Lewis

“Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do not 'toe-the-line' and 'act straight'. I don't think parents who do such things consider for a moment the kind of emotional damage they are doing to their children - or thinking beyond their own feelings about the situation - which will not change or go away simply because of their denial.”
― Christina Engela, All That Remains

“People earnestly say to me here, 'Mr Knight, we have cellphones now, and you're going to really enjoy them.' That's their enticement for me to rejoin society. 'You're going to love it,' they say. I have no desire. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph? We're going backwards.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“No cell phones?” Macey said as if we’d just told her all students were required to shave their heads and live on bread and water.”
― Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“You have not had any privacy since the first day you owned your first cell phone. They can track everything. They can hear recordings of anything you have ever said on your cell. And read everything you ever read, and everything you ever typed. And see every location you've ever been to. That's just how cells work. Your privacy is a willful illusion.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“In their phones were antennas, and these antennas sniffed out an invisible world, as if by magic, a world that was all around them, and also nowhere, transporting them to places distant and near, and to places that had never been and would never be.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“We are damaging the world more with our mobiles than our forefathers did with their musket.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“When I check my phone

to remember I exist and I shake it and shake it I shake
myself, as if to clear the Etch A Sketch
of my face. If I’m dead inside

how would I know, how
would a bulb
check its own filament.”
― Brian Tierney

“Ah, the days when your desktop had less than half the memory on your current phone.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.

When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.”
― L. Ashley Straker, Infected Connection

“Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your 'puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system has been brute-forced; passwords cracked, firewalls breached. Nothing has been left untouched.”
― L. Ashley Straker, Connected Infection

“Unlike the Man with No Cell Phone, the Man Who Can See around Corners owns several, which he places on the table, like talismans. So far, so good. But you can imagine my disappointment when he promptly disabuses me of this seeing-around-corners stuff. "That's all bullshit," he says.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“Man should never work for the machine, machine should work for the man.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Don't allow gadgets to replace games.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Edison and a few others had been working on improvements to Alexander Bell’s initial “telephone” device. Tesla was attempting to make the devices work without the aid of any wires at all. One didn’t have to be much of a scientist to know that this was absurd. Even if by some miracle Tesla managed to make them function, who in the world would have any use for them?”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Shortly after that nerve-racking event, Minister Delikatny, whom I really liked, did indeed disappear, but at least UMC was ‘in formation’. UMC would make a real and huge change in this highly secretive world. I still had a long to-do list. First, I needed to open a bank account to transfer the share capital. There was only one, very new, international bank, the First Ukrainian bank, a subsidiary of a Dutch bank that I hoped would be able to help. No such luck, there were no transfer processes in place yet. I decided to simply put the required USD 10,000 in my shoes next time I would travel. Fifty notes in each shoe was surely not a problem. I delivered the money to the bank on my next stay in Kiev and we were up and running. We could officially start building now.”
― Ineke Botter, Your phone, my life: Or, how did that phone land in your hand?

“My assumption with smart phone teenagers is they suffer from distraction issues.”
― Steven Magee

“My cell service didn’t return all night and all through the next day. It was like living in ancient times, with mead and beheadings and blacksmiths.”
― Penny Reid, Homecoming King

“Dyl-man. Doxie," Daddy said. He was on the big gray couch in his underwear, doing social media on his phone. Vera could tell because his mouth was open.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Vera, or Faith

“He was gazing down at his phone, his shoulders tense, his spine curling toward it.

She had the urge to call out to him, startle him with her voice: What’s in your phone that isn’t right here in front of you?

There is a naked person in your bed. There is a breeze in the yard.

Yet she knew there was plenty in his phone that wasn’t right here in front of him. The entire universe.”
― Helen Phillips, Hum