Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.

Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.

We Skype all the time - me and my brothers, and especially me and Dani. Anytime we're apart from the person we're with, we're always trying to be in touch and call.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much.

It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made.

I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

I grew up in the '70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends.

The toughest thing about making movies is being apart from your family. One of the things I try my best to do is call my wife every day to keep up to speed with what's going on in her life. And tell her what's going on with mine.

I'm close with my whole family, but it requires email and texting because they don't all live nearby!