Wrong Number Quotes:

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

- Anthony Horowitz

source: Anthony Horowitz (2004). “Skeleton Key”, p.97, Penguin

topic: Wrong Number, Phones, Numbers, Alex Rider

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

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

topic: Simple, Wrong Number, Ideas

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

topic: Love, Wrong Number, Ideas, Twists And Turns, Perfect Things

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Wrong Number, Numbers

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

topic: Vegas, Wrong Number, Numbers

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Wrong Number, Numbers, Sometimes

Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

- Anthony Jeselnik

source: Twitter post from Aug 10, 2010

topic: Sorry, Dad, Lying, Wrong Number, Saying Sorry

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

- Edward Tufte

topic: Numbers, Statistics, Boring, Analytics, Wrong Number

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

topic: Two, Numbers, People, Wrong Number

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

- P. G. Wodehouse

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

topic: Humorous, Numbers, Voice, Jeeves, Wrong Number

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

- James Thurber

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Witty, Wrong Number

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

topic: Night, Voice, Numbers, Wrong Number

Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait."

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Humor, Thinking, Joey, Wrong Number

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

topic: School, Numbers, Office, Wrong Number, Answering Machines

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

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

topic: School, Numbers, May, Waste Disposal, Wrong Number

My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'

- Nita Ambani

topic: Father, Next Day, Numbers, Dance Performance, Wrong Number

At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'

- Jay Leno

topic: Sex, Boys, Numbers, Briefing, Wrong Number