Top 12 Wrong Number Quotes

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

P. G. Wodehouse

Humorous, Wrong Number, Voice

P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.569, Random House

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Edward Tufte

Numbers, Wrong Number, Statistics

There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 am. It could be a right number.

Doug Larson

Wrong Number, Numbers

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Bruce Jenner

Wrong Number, Two, Numbers

Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

Jaclyn Moriarty

School, Numbers, Wrong Number

Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

Paul Auster

Night, Wrong Number, Voice

Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.3, Faber & Faber

To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

Haruki Murakami

Love, Wrong Number, Ideas

Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.

Erma Bombeck

Humorous, School, Wrong Number

Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.26, Open Road Media

I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas

Kelley Armstrong

Vegas, Wrong Number, Numbers

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

Haruki Murakami

Simple, Wrong Number, Ideas

Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.83, Random House