Communication Habits Quotes

In my day-to-day, I might speak, like, 10 sentences.

The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.

Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.

We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

The less men think, the more they talk.

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

I'm trying to call more and text less. I don't want to check my phone 5,000 times a day anymore. It was getting to me. I'm bringing 'old' back.

I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation.

I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy.

I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.

I'm an over-communicator a lot of the time.

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

We've switched to text messages, we do anything we can to avoid being on the phone.

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.

Nobody ever texts me, because they know what I'm like. I'm a constant frustration to my children because I never switch my mobile phone on. I only use it when I need to make a call or when I'm stuck somewhere or lost, then I switch it off again. I've never texted anyone in my life, and I'm not sure I even know how to.

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

I don't belong to any social network, and I don't even message much. In fact, most of the time, I don't even use my mobile phone.

Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.