Device Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… — Thomas Jefferson
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily… — Muriel Spark
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil.… — P.D. James
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? — J. G. Ballard
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways… — Lloyd Alexander
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good. — Epicurus
The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded or inflatable, so… — Desmond Morris
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. — Donna Tartt
You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp… — Max Levchin
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan?… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there… — Thomas Peterffy
The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by… — Scott Ritter
I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant… — Darby Stanchfield
Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear… — David Krieger
If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch… — Kevin Spacey
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day… — George Arthur Crump
Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available. — Donald A. Norman
It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the… — Terry Eagleton

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