Top 171 Dial Quotes & Sayings

'Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her.

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

I don't have speed dial, but if I had one, it would probably be my mum.

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

[Men's] natural tendencies, natural proclivities, are bad. You gotta rein that in. You gotta dial that back. You need to really raise your conscience level and be aware of how others see you and dial it back, because it's just too predatory, brutish, what have you.

I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

Whatever it is that you do, dial it up to a 10 because for me people won't necessarily think I am the best wrestler in the world, but I can do what others can't.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

I've got 911 on speed dial.

I think the tight end position is so unique because you always have a mismatch if you know how to dial it up or use it right.

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Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

Whoa. He had ghouls on speed dial. My lawyer kicks so much ass.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

I'm not gonna lie. I used to be in AOL chat rooms a lot causing trouble back when you had dial-up modems.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

So I phoned up the spiritual leader of tibet, he sent me a large goat with a long neck, turns out I phoned dial a lama.

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.

What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

Mirroring is simply repeating what someone just said. It creates more reception from the other side, it focuses attention, and it gives them an opportunity to dial in more with you and you to dial in more with them. It causes an almost completely unconscious response for the person to want to go on.

I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." — Jacob Black

The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

Coach Reid is always going to dial the right plays up. He's a guru.

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

I'm curious when I look across the dial Monday through Friday, you know, where are the other female black anchors?

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.

Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down.

I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.

I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.

I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.

When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that will sort of move the dial. And there's this sort of weird effect where the larger a company gets, the harder it is to come up with any new product that really moves the dial.

One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

In TV the main purpose is to have them keep their hands off the dial. In movies, where you have a captive audience, the opening is intrinsic to the film.

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.

What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.

I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.

In Formula 1 it's easier to dial out the balance issues and perfect it, whereas in IndyCar it's more difficult to dial out those characteristics with mechanical changes in the pits. Instead you have to drive around it.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

Trump simply can't dial down the lying, or turn it off - even, his own attorneys suggest, when false statements may be punished as crimes.

It's hard for me to dial in sometimes and be focussed, even though I know that I'm ready.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.