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  • I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.

    Home   Years   Voice  
  • I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal.

    Home   Phones   Machines  
  • I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

    Machines   Answers   Doe  
  • I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.

    Mom   Teenage   Children  
    "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.
  • [Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

  • Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.

    Book   Love You   Kids  
  • I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

    Humorous   Phones   Wish  
    "Seinfeld". Season 2, Episode 4: "The Phone Message", 1989-1999.
  • Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

    Men   Dying   Messages  
  • Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.” His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. “Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.

    Fate   Voice   Storm  
    James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.226, Random House
  • I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

  • Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

  • I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

    Hate   Voice   Phones  
    "Gossip Girls". Interview with Judith Newman, www.marieclaire.com. February 4, 2009.
  • You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.

    Humorous   Party   Night  
    Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”
  • It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.

    Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
  • My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

    "SXSW ’12: Mark Mothersbaugh Confirms He’s Scoring ‘Lego,’ Talks Working On Wes Anderson’s ‘Bottle Rocket’ & More" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2012.
  • 9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to speak to each other manually; today one or both ends of the conversation would be carried on by a machine.

  • Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

    Phones   Voice   People  
    Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 15, 2004.
  • The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

    Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press
  • No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.

    Machines   Calling   May  
    Lydia Davis (2007). “Varieties of Disturbance: Stories”, p.86, Macmillan
  • Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

    Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.39, HarperCollins UK
  • The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

    Revenge   Party   Home  
    Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

  • One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.

    Humorous   Son   Phones  
    Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.497, Open Road Media
  • The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact.

    Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

  • What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions in the middle of the night.

    Humorous   Night   Phones  
    "Dave Barry's Bad Habits". Book by Dave Barry, September 15, 1993.
  • Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

    Phones   Drunk   Advice  
  • Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons.

    People   Needs   Machines  
  • I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

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