Displays Quotes
115 Displays quotes by 107 unique authors
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By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing,…
— Ray Kurzweil
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People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit…
— Kristen Stewart
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Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having…
— Marvin Olasky
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The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of…
— Dennis Miller
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Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile…
— Edward Tufte
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I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like…
— Mark Viduka
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Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.
— Peter Farb
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The…
— Lara Pulver
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All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for…
— Frederick Lenz
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into…
— Joseph Addison
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The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him…
— Mike Harding
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There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion…
— Miroslav Volf
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If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more…
— Baltasar Gracian
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We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being…
— Sloane Crosley
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I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
— Jenny Eclair
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
— Umberto Eco
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Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect…
— Jesse Ventura
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The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your weight with him.…
— Carolyn Mackler
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The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance…
— Harvey Fierstein
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Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets…
— Alain de Botton
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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a…
— William Butler Yeats
Who Wrote These Displays Quotes
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