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God screens us evermore from premature ideas. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. -- Howard Rheingold
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release. -- Carl Honore
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. -- William James
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal. -- Kate Braverman
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
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
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
There's a reason screens are only this thick. -- John Malkovich
Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on. -- Tim Cook
The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome. -- Paul Simon
my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens -- Rodney Dangerfield
I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. -- David Byrne
Delivering compelling premium experiences across screens is core to our mission at Yahoo. -- Ross Levinsohn
We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens. -- Henry Selick
If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens -- Lily Allen
You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment. -- Anne Sebba
Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens. -- George Clooney
My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. -- Douglas Trumbull
As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces. -- Jan Chipchase
My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left. -- Marv Albert
There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content. -- Mark Burnett
We're on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens. -- Alan Robert
Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. -- Wendell Berry
We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens. -- George Martin
Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens. -- Drake
We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community. -- Dani Shapiro
I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space. -- Rick Alverson
The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball. -- Holly Johnson
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
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
I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. -- Roger Ebert
Many researchers have joined the field and applied the LED to many new markets such as mobile phone screens, LED TV, and LED Lighting. -- Shuji Nakamura
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind faÃ§ades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour. -- John Pilger
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
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
What still amuses me a bit is that in F1 people see the race basically on TV screens. But I am sure new tracks will be built. -- Martin Sorrell
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
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
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
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
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them. -- Albert Camus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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