Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or… — Justin Kaplan Copy Share Image
People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
I’ve been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity.… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone.… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
