Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.
I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.
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.
If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.
On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.
I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.
Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.
Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.
I developed several comedy phone calls.
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.
Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?
I guess we're all one phone call from our knees
I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.
Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.