Devices Quotes · Page 4

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

— Helen Fisher

If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?

— Jerry Seinfeld

We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.

— Saint Basil

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

— George Polya

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

— Rick Moody

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

— David Bowie

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

Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place…

— Neale Donald Walsch

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a…

— J. Patrick Lewis

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

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires…

— Jim Coleman

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the…

— Anonymous

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit…

— Simon Blackburn

It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen.…

— Lara Pulver

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

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

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and…

— Claud Cockburn

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it…

— Virginia Woolf

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Wearable devices are here to stay, and they'll only get more sophisticated and effective as they evolve. Until now, most of us…

— Michael Dell

The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist…

— Molly Ivins

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong…

— Napoleon Hill

This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty.…

— E. Cobham Brewer

And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so…

— Chuck Klosterman

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent…

— H. L. Mencken

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

The company [Microsoft] really has to chart a direction in mobile devices. Because if you're going to be mobile-first, cloud-first you really…

— Steve Ballmer

Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.

— Geoff Mulgan

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

— Julia Cameron

The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

— Dana Rohrabacher

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

— Jeff Bezos

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

— Ted Kooser

We'll have 130 million phone devices that have Flash by the end of the year.

— Shantanu Narayen

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

— Baz Luhrmann