Top 100 Quotes About Screens
#1. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
Sophie Kinsella
#2. I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.
Peyton Manning
#3. If climate change issues are not adequately addressed - if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don't have it on their radar screens - then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.
Christine Lagarde
#5. No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .
Olivia Sudjic
#6. Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.
Belinda Subraman
#7. I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.
Derrick Rose
#8. I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.
Rick Alverson
#9. You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.
Ed Westwick
#10. We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.
George Martin
#11. I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
David Byrne
#12. On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Bill Gates
#13. I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
Clark Gable
#14. It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
Lisa See
#15. The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
Paul Simon
#16. The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
David McCord
#17. Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
Hanna Rosin
#18. The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed ... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people.
Billy Graham
#19. One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
Joshua Foer
#20. Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.
Neil Patrick Harris
#21. Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
Robert Kennedy
#22. Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking. A
Kevin Kelly
#23. You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.
Paul Newman
#24. I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.
John Lloyd Young
#25. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
Ron Livingston
#26. Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on.
Tim Cook
#27. I learned that music comes from the voice, the rhythm and the heart of each person, and that the musicality of those unrecorded melodies could lift the curtain of fog, pass through windows and screens to waken us as gently as a morning lullaby.
Kim Thuy
#28. Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
George Clooney
#29. We are even better looking on the small screen
Jerry Stiller
#30. Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence.
Roger Zelazny
#31. They gave these screens to us as chains. Today, we make them hammers. Karnus
Pierce Brown
#32. As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.
Jan Chipchase
#33. Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels "god" and "not-god" and "theism.' and "atheism" .
Nanamoli Thera
#34. Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
Wilhelm Stekel
#35. The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.
Richard Curtis
#36. Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.
Drake
#37. People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds.
Rebecca Lobo
#38. He threw back his shoulders, a hunter preparing to stalk his prey across the night ... and pulled an iPhone out of his pocket.
"You are kidding me." I watched as he tapped through screens with practiced swipes. "There's an app for that?
Helen Keeble
#39. There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?
Marilynne Robinson
#40. We build up celebrities easily here. They tower above us on the public screens: huge and terrifying and out of our reach.
James W. Bodden
#41. It could be a technology that would erase a feeling that an entire generation felt while staring into their computer screens.
Nick Bilton
#42. There are no voice pipes or telegraphs, as Titanic had, and barely any brass, but so many beeps and screens that I wonder if ships will soon be able to drive themselves.
Rose George
#43. Isn't it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.
Debasish Mridha
#44. You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay
#45. Most never received messages from solid-state entities, evil or otherwise (although talking to the furniture, overhead light bulbs, lava lamps, and computer screens is commonly reported, these "entities" do not usually answer back) and never experienced paranoid episodes lasting for more ...
Karl Jansen
#46. Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens.
Anything. Anything for a fix of light.
X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths," The Lords of Misrule
X.J. Kennedy
#47. Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.
Frank Miller
#48. You're being watched too, remember?"
"I wasn't aware - "
"That some of the screens you're looking at are looking at you?"
"Yes."
"Well, they are.
Clive Barker
#49. The mind, as a defense against the volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.
Al Ries
#50. I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.
Nicole Kidman
#51. In theory, the Internet provides an opportunity to widen knowledge-to see beyond screens and neighborhoods into a broader universe-and yet the first thing many people want to do is wall themselves off and broadcast how narrow-minded they are. It seems to absolutely miss the point of the experience.
Jason Gay
#53. What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.
Keri Smith
#54. With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.
Edward St. Aubyn
#55. If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
Wes Craven
#56. Some even "peek through" their computer screens to see themselves on FB as others see them, in order to be sure of who they really are. In effect, they have become self-voyeurs!
Nicos Hadjicostis
#57. So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.
Glenn Close
#58. As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.
Chris Riddell
#59. We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.
John Hench
#60. But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons of acquisitions people, and the fate of your film in some ways, if not decided, is really affected by how it screens that night.
James Ponsoldt
#61. Her computer's fan whirred to life, blowing warm air onto her fingers. Two flame-red slits glowed from the monitor. The speakers boomed. "I lived! I died! I live again!"
Olivie had dealt with blue screens, frozen hourglasses, and even the odd hardware conflict back in the day. This was new.
Choong JayVee
#62. Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals to Web sites for what Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping games, jerking off, streaming endless garbage-
Thomas Pynchon
#63. 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
Ted Sarandos
#64. Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.
Philip Alston
#65. Her eyelids had turned into screens that played her memories on a loop.
Sonali Dev
#66. By outward appearances, Cantabrigia Five was a video journalist. But it made sense that, in a world where no police or military action could be judged successful unless it looked good to ordinary persons watching it on video screens, she was also a general.
Neal Stephenson
#67. I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles R. Swindoll
#68. Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
Orson Welles
#69. A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
Robert Rodriguez
#70. The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies.
Howard Zinn
#71. The flames rose bright on everyone's screens, flickering lipstick red and traffic-cone orange and Lord knows what else, depending on how your television's colour was.
Daniel Handler
#72. But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.
Lizzo
#73. I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)
Malcolm Gladwell
#74. I think there's something thrilling about going into a movie house and seeing everything on such a huge screen. I think we're in a culture now that is confronted with various sizes of screens, the biggest movie houses and then the smallest iPods.
Glenn Close
#75. My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools.
Seamus Dever
#76. There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.
Alexandra Kleeman
#77. ...no matter what any poet did, the poems would constitute screens on which readers could project their own desperate belief in the possibility of poetic experience, whatever that might be, or afford them the opportunity to mourn its impossibility.
Ben Lerner
#78. It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
Howard Rheingold
#79. I've never played anyone but myself on screen.
Glenn Ford
#80. the people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens
George Orwell
#81. In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
Andrzej Wajda
#82. Ethan didn't miss those things. Didn't wish that his son was growing up in a world where people stared at screens all day. Where communication had devolved into the tapping of tiny letters and humanity lived by and large for the endorphin kick from the ping of a received text or a new e-mail.
Blake Crouch
#83. In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Marshall McLuhan
#84. When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice ... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
Yuri Milner
#85. I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.
Stephen Hopkins
#86. Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.
"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.
Douglas Adams
#87. If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.
N. T. Wright
#88. The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#89. The houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.
Barbara Kingsolver
#90. No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.
Brent Spiner
#91. Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society. It
Alison Goodman
#92. Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
Andrzej Wajda
#93. no matter how many options we seem to have on our screens, we should be careful not to lose track of the human beings behind them.
Aziz Ansari
#94. More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
Philip Hammond
#95. When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.
Maureen Johnson
#96. To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.
Tom Hodgkinson
#97. People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power).
Nicholson Baker
#99. It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
George Lucas
#100. Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That's why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!
Israelmore Ayivor
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