Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. — Stephen Elop Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 2:30 or 3, but I can't do that if I'm getting up at 6:50! — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room. — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach? — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
The elite government does have devices that can create earthquakes anywhere in the world that they want. I was just in Russia… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts 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
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons… — Dean Lombardi Copy Share Image
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
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