Top 1200 Answering Machines Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.

Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

If I had met Bette Midler, I wouldn't be answering these questions right now because I'd have spontaneously combusted and gone to heaven.

Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.

I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal.

I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.

You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

We are not thinking machines.

Smoke machines are the best!

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Unfortunately, I have two facets to my makeup, and that is both scientific and artistic. By doing medicine, I was only answering one of those sides.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

Most of us at least briefly considered answering, 'An astronaut,' when asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew up.

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or "Go" or any other game - machines will prevail not because they can solve the game. Chess is mathematically unsolvable. But at the end of the day, the machine doesn't have to solve the game. The machine has to win the game. And to win the game, it just has to make fewer mistakes than humans. Which is not that difficult since humans are humans and vulnerable, and we don't have the same steady hand as the computer.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Answering phones synchronously is very different than reading an email, sorting it, figuring out which bucket it goes in, and then responding.

As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime.

Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities.

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Remember, machines don't forgive.

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

I don't have a favorite body part nor do I have a favorite exercise. Everyone who is honest prefers machines over free-weights, because machines are more convenient and cause less muscle pain and require less concentration and are generally less dangerous. BUT, if you like to have real gains you have to train hard and heavy, and you have to chose always the LEAST favorite exercises which actually give you the best possible results. So go for the least favorite exercises, the free weights... and go for the muscle pain!

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I'm not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.

It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that.

I get emotionally spent answering questions about my dead father and my criminal friends and my upbringing in a hippie environment in a marginalized community.

Facebook, instagram - I prefer visual communication better than verbal. But I read all the comments, answering too.

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.

[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

People are machines of forgetfulness

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.