Devices Quotes · Page 5

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday…

— Dario Argento

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

— Doug Larson

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

— H. L. Mencken

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.

— Vladimir Lenin

Evidence from mobile devices has provided critical help in solving crimes ranging from homicides to drug trafficking.

— Del Quentin Wilber

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

— Shantanu Narayen

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

— Edward John Carnell

Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy…

— Evgeny Morozov

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for…

— Trent Reznor

You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer…

— Bill Frakes

To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can…

— Alexander Stille

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal…

— Noah Hawley

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles…

— Henry W. Kendall

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“[W]hile devices cannot replace imagination, they can certainly influence it and even mould it. Devices are there for the artists to use…

— Satyajit Ray

Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,…

— Agnes Repplier

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an…

— Susan Sontag

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set…

— Anonymous

The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of…

— Dale Jamieson

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to…

— Anonymous

Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from…

— Julian Barnes

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was…

— Ashton Kutcher

The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far…

— Albert J. Nock

A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry…

— Eric Ludy

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

— John Dewey

Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice…

— Harper Lee

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on…

— Steve Largent

In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical…

— Lewis Mumford

Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you…

— Joshua Ferris

A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket,…

— Anna Brackett

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

— Monica Edwards

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

— Laura Anne Gilman

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

— Paul Ryan

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story,…

— Matthew Weiner

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

— Gerry Mulligan

Сase studies are a tremendous device for developing problem solving skills, which are really valuable.

— Robert J. Dolan

Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour