An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about s... REGINA SPEKTOR She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Every one of us wants to be in the big leagues, ... Hopefully, that phone call comes tonight (Thursd... ANDY GREEN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. No one is too busy to pick up the phone, to make a one-minute phone call. No matter how busy they sa... CANDACE BUSHNELL You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES It's an invaluable tool. Like yesterday, when you're only allowed one phone call to a kid. You can k... RICK STOCKSTILL I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY To say how close John and dad were, I'd call him after meets - all the way up till the end. We discu... BRIAN GRAY Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can y... TOM COLE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call ... KARL MALONE One phone call can save a lot of money. BOB WEBSTER If there's a way to control everyone to have their phone or Blackberry on just a vibrate mode and ha... TOM LEHMAN If even one family can avoid getting that phone call, in the middle of the night, because of this le... JUDY SHEPARD Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right ne... ERROL MORRIS I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that. VINCE VAUGHN We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i... , "THE CALL OF CTHULHU" This is why the Internet-phone industry is probably going to replace entirely what we might call loo... JAMES GATTUSO (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Our phone is out. How are they going to call us? GLORIA MOORE I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY ...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows ... LYNNE TRUSS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. EVELYN HENDRICKSON These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that pho... KAMALA HARRIS [Others lambasted the ROKR:] Talk about an anticlimax, ... The lack of genuinely interesting news ab... DAN GILLMOR There is no functional difference between a wire-based phone call and a wireless phone call, so they... KATE PHILIPS Without the crucial information provided by Mr. Holmes and without the phone call from Mr. Donahue, ... DOUGLAS DUNCAN Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. MARK STRAND I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a p... JEFFREY GITOMER Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES The phone went ballistic. If an octopus could pick up a phone every 2 seconds, that was how busy it ... RUDY PROVENCIO Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one hold... CHE GUEVARA I'll call you," he repeated. "If you call me, I won't pick up the phone." "You will wait b... ILONA ANDREWS I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES It gives me some down time without phone calls and interruptions in the late morning and early eveni... DENNIS BUCKLEY It took a lot for him to pick up the phone, unsolicited. That was probably not an easy phone call fo... BILLY BEANE I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a l... MICHAEL PHELPS The can also think of someone that person would call if they could only make one phone call, then ch... NANCY BROWN The suspect answered the phone and said he had been waiting for a call so he could say where the bab... INSPECTOR PAUL RAMALOKO You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the ... ZOOEY DESCHANEL I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS Yeah,Livie?” “How do you figure out the right way to live your life?” There’s a long pa... K.A. TUCKER The athletes were treated like criminals, they weren't even allowed to make a phone call. They check... ERIC WAGNER Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a comm... ED BRADLEY كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT I got an emergency phone call from my daughter around 10 a.m. She called and was pretty hysterical t... DON BURNS I think it is pretty clear the system is flawed. I don't think the citizens of Henderson expect that... AL LASSO Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again. SARAH DESSEN Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a pho... SCOTT MCNEALY A lot of times the e-mails and phone calls that come in will shape how he votes on an issue. JENNIFER HALL A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed t... MAX LERNER He was getting a barrage of calls from May to late July -- phone calls, e-mails, text messages. It w... TOM ATTANASI I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel. STEVEN GERRARD Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY In the 17 years I've lived in the city, 98 percent of the time when I call the city I get a message,... JACK MURPHY If there is somebody we're interested in we might place a phone call and send them a look book. JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of r... RICHARD VIRENQUE One of the joys of being a grandparent is giving your grandchild caffeinated sugary drinks late in t... NEIL LECKMAN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS
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