Quotes About Screens

#1. 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

#2. There was nothing like dying publicly on a few billion screens to help reconnect with folks.

James S.A. Corey

#3. Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Pat Brown

#4. We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

Henry Selick

#5. My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

Douglas Trumbull

#6. The difference between shooters and scorers is that shooters usually need plays to be run for them or screens to get their shot.

Walt Frazier

#7. It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.

John Dyer Baizley

#8. If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens

Lily Allen

#9. One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.

Ralph Steadman

#10. I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

George Lucas

#11. What is your name?" Ariane asked him. The kid put up his deflector screens and said, "Einstein." Silence then. When no one laughed, he stood straighter and drifted closer.

Neal Stephenson

#12. Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

Susanna Kaysen

#13. The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page ... that's asking a lot of people.

Nancy Gibbs

#14. We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

Dani Shapiro

#15. We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.

George W. Bush

#16. People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn't make sense how they'd laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

Tablo

#17. Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

Ingrid Newkirk

#18. I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.

Arin Paul

#19. I've been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in love with the ocean.

Greg MacGillivray

#20. There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

Douglas Trumbull

#21. By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.

Laura Mulvey

#22. When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what's going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.

Kyrie Irving

#23. Learn about the key developer tasks that you will need to perform when developing a Windows Store business app. Included are tasks for pages, touch, validation, application data, tiles, search, performance, testing, extended splash screens, incremental loading, and the Prism libraries.

Anonymous

#24. Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.

Bill Maher

#25. You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.

Anne Sebba

#26. I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.

Nick Offerman

#27. 'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

Mark Burnett

#28. I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?

Bo Burnham

#29. Looked excitingly purposeful, with large video screens ranged over the control and guidance system panels on the concave wall, and long banks of computers set into the convex wall. In one corner a robot sat humped,

Douglas Adams

#30. For the first time in a long time, connection had replaced connectedness. I'd never seen anything like it before, not on this scale. The effervescent pulse of human interaction. People turning to faces instead of screens. It was a splendor of its own.

Lauren Miller

#31. But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?

T.C. Boyle

#32. I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

Paola Antonelli

#33. So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

Walter Salles

#34. I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

Samantha Bond

#35. In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular.

Tina Brown

#36. It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.

Eric Holder

#37. I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.

Scott Cairns

#38. Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#39. Users who buy larger monitors expect that their apps will continue to look good on these large screens and fill the screen with more content, where possible.

Anonymous

#40. The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

David Crane

#41. Between the two desks was one of those old Chinese screens, but even this bore Jenna's stamp, as the wood had been painted
you guessed it: pink.

Rachel Hawkins

#42. Maybe because we're photosynthesizing we'll do more work outside. So our laptops will have to get rid of these damn glossy screens that have become so popular. And then we'll sit around outside, sucking up sun, getting fat and green, and surfing the net.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#43. People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

Paul Murray

#44. You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

Alison Jackson

#45. Friday means popcorn and multiplexes, speaking of movies, and it is the multi that is the problem. So many movie screens. The struggle of what to put on them.

Mike Pesca

#46. The Dip is the long stretch between beginner's luck and real accomplishment. The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out.

Seth Godin

#47. I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

Hayden Fry

#48. I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

Gabe Newell

#49. As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

Marcy Kaptur

#50. The fact that people look at pictures so tiny on Instagram - people ask me about it popping on Instagram, but I didn't alter myself to be that. I didn't change for the screens, I've just been doing me.

Jeremy Scott

#51. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

Chris Roberson

#52. We come to a house and walk down the small walkway to its backyard. In the yard there are two screens and a slide projector. People are seated in lawn chairs, watching slides of trees.

Audrey Niffenegger

#53. I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news.

Mark Burnett

#54. I don't really remember what computer screens looked like,

Emily St. John Mandel

#55. I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world ... plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

Edward R. Tufte

#56. It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

Marvin Minsky

#57. Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

Richard Flanagan

#58. If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

Bill Gates

#59. There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#60. Peter was the current someone she used to keep from relying on herself, the crutch to hold on to, to promise herself that if she only had him to love, she would have it all come together. Why did she keep throwing men up as smoke screens between herself and herself?

Barbara Howar

#61. I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

Nolan Bushnell

#62. We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.

Marisha Pessl

#63. I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens were big and palaces were palaces and stars were larger than life that reality was so much inferior to what we felt was conceivably possible from what we had seen in the movies.

Woody Allen

#64. As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

Tom Chatfield

#65. When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.

Maria Semple

#66. Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

B.W. Powe

#67. In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air.

Doris Duke

#68. Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.

Andrew Weil

#69. By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#70. I've always been afraid that somewhere, future time travelers flip through our mirrors as if they were t.v. screens, catching our most awkward and personal moments.

Fran Krause

#71. It's a world of multiple screens, smart displays, with tons of low-cost computing, with big sensors built into devices. At Google, we ask how to bring together something seamless and beautiful and intuitive across all these screens.

Sundar Pichai

#72. I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

Rupert Murdoch

#73. My life had devolved into a fluorescent haze of desktop Outlook/Internet Explorer/Excel screens by day followed by laptop Chrome/Facebook/Netflix nights.

Wayne Gladstone

#74. When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#75. Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a requirement. (There would be the question of fly screens, for one thing.)

Shirley Hazzard

#76. The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love with bright screens and rising technology.

Christopher Poindexter

#77. In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

Samantha Power

#78. The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

Sam Altman

#79. There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Alexander Cockburn

#80. After a moment I pushed my chair back and went over to the french windows. I opened the screens and stepped out on to the porch. The night was all around, soft and quiet. The white moonlight was cold and clear, like the justice we dream of but don't find.

Raymond Chandler

#81. I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

Joan Collins

#82. In the afternoon, over gold screens,
I will brush the blue dust of my dreams.

John Gould Fletcher

#83. In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.

Elizabeth McCracken

#84. Delivering compelling premium experiences across screens is core to our mission at Yahoo.

Ross Levinsohn

#85. Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

Ralph Nader

#86. One by one, the three picture-in-picture mini-screens drop off. They've grown tired of the geek-speak. They have more important things to do than watch the blow-by-blow engineering sausage-making.

Eduardo Suastegui

#87. My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Marv Albert

#88. Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

Wendell Berry

#89. As she left her parents' neighborhood, the houses got newer and bigger and boxier. Through windows with no mullions or fake plastic mullions she could see luminous screens, some giant, some miniature. Evidently every hour of the year, including this one, was a good hour for staring at a screen.

Jonathan Franzen

#90. The things kids can do on screens can be really delightful - if they are age appropriate. But no, they shouldn't spend all their time on a screen; they should split up their time doing multiple, different things.

Clive Thompson

#91. I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

Eric Church

#92. Silly man, doesn't he know money is imaginary? It's paper that turns into numbers on screens, after all. It's there, then it's gone. I put it places, I take it out, I move it someplace else. Imaginary. Most things are imaginary, when you think about it.

Kiersten White

#93. I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.

Sonakshi Sinha

#94. We spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

Charlie Brooker

#95. I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#96. Ray, twenty-eight, comments on what it's like to have a relationship when you compete with screens: I think the way we're going, a lot of people are getting the feeling that even though the person they're with is there, you don't get the feeling of real connection. You just have information.

Sherry Turkle

#97. First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Jack L. Chalker

#98. The two most important days if your life are the day you are born ... and the day you find out why having multiple screens for your computer is so awesome because now reports and grants are like a billion times easier!

Mark Twain

#99. Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

Mohsin Hamid

#100. 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