{"quotes":[{"text":"I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.","author":"Tawni O'Dell","tags":["attention-span","mindfulness","paying-attention","phones"],"id":16684,"author_id":"Tawni+O%27Dell"},{"text":"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 each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when the phone rings. It’s like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger. Now we answer, “What happened? Is someone tied up in the old sawmill?”“No, it’s Becky. I just called to say hi.”“Well you scared me half to death. You can’t just pick up the phone and try to talk to me like that. Don’t the tips of your fingers work?","author":"Ellen DeGeneres","tags":["communication","humor","phones","texting"],"id":47465,"author_id":"Ellen+DeGeneres"},{"text":"We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.","author":"Marcia Gay Harden","tags":["day","age","phones "],"id":50495,"author_id":"Marcia+Gay+Harden"},{"text":"This was 1991, remember. We didn't have the Internet. So, as teenagers, we lived on the phone. There was no webcamming, no social networking. We dreamt simply of having our own personal phone lines one day, along with uninterrupted hours to talk, and we rarely got that. No matter who we were talking to, no matter how private the conversation, parents picked up the phone accidentally, siblings demanded their time. The introduction of call waiting made all of this even worse, as it allowed aunts and uncles and people you didn't even know to butt in. This is part of why we talked so late in the night, Lindy and I, all of us teens. This is why we looked so pale in our grunge clothes. These night hours were the only times we felt we could tell the truth without danger, the only times we could live separately from our parents while still inside of their homes. There were no cell phones. No private text messages. It was simple one on one conversation and, if it was any good at all, you had to whisper.","author":"M.O. Walsh","tags":["1990s","phones","teenagers"],"id":54897,"author_id":"M.O.+Walsh"},{"text":"We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are. We fear silence like it's an invisible monster, gnawing at us, ripping us open, and showing us our dissatisfaction. Silence is terrifying.","author":"Jefferson Bethke","tags":["computers","dissatisfaction","face-up","facebook","phones","silence"],"id":93488,"author_id":"Jefferson+Bethke"},{"text":"We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.","author":"Mohamed Ghazi","tags":["cellphones","friends","friendship","friendships","love","mobiles","phones","relationship","relationships"],"id":97666,"author_id":"Mohamed+Ghazi"},{"text":"Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["communication","humor","opinion","phones","sarcasm","smartphones","technology"],"id":107964,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"*For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pjs and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to rages with my bare hands. Give me one good reason why I could possibly need you?*She looks straight at me, not blinking. No fear in her eyes.*Because you might be the Tasmanian Devil and the Angel of Death all rolled into one, but you don't even know how to get a phone.*I hate to admit it, but she has a point.","author":"Richard Kadrey","tags":["hell","monsters","phones"],"id":134984,"author_id":"Richard+Kadrey"},{"text":"He pulled the truck onto the shoulder of the road and parked, cell phone tight in one hand, his eyes on the landscape before him. From here he could see the foothills rippling out like a blanket from the ragged edge of the mountains. They spread in loose folds until becoming the flat expanse of prairie that crossed all the way to the Great Lakes. July's bounty was a brash flare of colour: wind combed through golden tracts of wheat and sun-bright canola so brilliant he had to squint.The truck was balanced along the edge of an invisible wall which blocked Waterton from the rest of the world. He hadn't thought about how very real that barrier was; now that his phone was reconnected, it felt like a physical presence. He wasn't quite sure what he'd find on the other side.","author":"Danika Stone","tags":["life","phones","technology","technology-addiction","waterton"],"id":163310,"author_id":"Danika+Stone"},{"text":"Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.","author":"Clarissa Pinkola Estes","tags":["phones","human","something "],"id":164533,"author_id":"Clarissa+Pinkola+Estes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}