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«Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought»
Author: Arthur Helps (Historian, Novelist) | About: Reading | Keywords: device, ingenious
«My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.»
Author: Nikola Tesla (Engineer, Inventor) | Keywords: as far as possible, concrete, device, embodies, embody, embodying, improvement, improvements, invention, New Idea, operate, rush
«I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?»
Author: P. D. James | Keywords: device, ensuring, inelegant, involve, straightforward, turmoil
«No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile»
Author: William Rootes | Keywords: ancient, automobile, device, ego, fulfills, knighted, knights, lances, lancing, shields, The knight, The Knights
«Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: combines, combining, company, device, letter, solitude
«Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women»
Author: Margaret Mead | About: Society | Keywords: device, educated, societies, teaching
«Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: device, Kings of, shields, vengeance
«DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: cramp, cramped, cramping, cramps, device, dictionary, inelastic, literary, literary device, literary work, malevolent
«It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Critic, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: caves, device, dome, domes, sunny
«Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the screen is its best medium.»
Author: Walt Disney (Producer) | About: Cinema | Keywords: device, fable, sheer, the screen
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