telephone call Quotes

“Beware the tyranny of the telephone! From time to time an urgent call brings you a request for which you have no budgeted hours.”

“The pleading voice assures you of the importance of this impending task and how well-qualified you are to take it on. It may be difficult to decline, especially if it seems that the activity can be squeezed in. But no matter how clear the calendar looks, tell the person that you want to think it over. ”

“Forget about your lists and do what you can because that’s all you can do. Phone up the people you miss and tell them you love them.”

″‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I want to talk to you.’ Claws of ice clamped down on Miss Keene’s shuddering chest. She lay petrified, unable to cut off the sound of the man’s dull expressionless voice, asking, Where are you? I want to talk to you.‘”