Devices Quotes

644 Devices quotes by 514 unique authors

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad… — J. Patrick Lewis
This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself… — Tom Robbins
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out… — Daniel Handler
He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be,… — Douglas Adams
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to… — Douglas Adams
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. — Steven Wright
Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our… — Tom Hodgkinson
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. — Lord Byron
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now… — E. M. Forster
Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic… — Dave Barry
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was… — Douglas Adams
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body… — Helen Fielding
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one… — Tom Stoppard
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely… — Kevin Brockmeier
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then… — Audre Lorde
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities… — Don DeLillo
What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device. — Janette Rallison
[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in… — Kurt Vonnegut
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions. — Gary Shteyngart
People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether… — Charles de Lint
When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire. — Patrick Rothfuss

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