Devices Quotes
644 Devices quotes by 514 unique authors
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Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are…
— Chetan Bhagat
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All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her…
— Charles Yu
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Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after aisle of training…
— Jeff Lindsay
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Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save…
— Hannah Arendt
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In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.
— Stephen King
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Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?” -Simon, pg.340-
— Cassandra Clare
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Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they…
— Will Eisner
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Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to…
— Harper Lee
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If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you…
— Kiersten White
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Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
— Laura Anne Gilman
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Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of…
— John Steinbeck
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex…
— Bruce Sterling
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Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has…
— Marc Bekoff
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
— B.F. Skinner
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I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than…
— Chelsea Handler
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The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
— Richard K. Morgan
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As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
— David Mitchell
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Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely a device to…
— R A Salvatore
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