Top 1200 Literary Devices Quotes & Sayings - Page 12
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Last updated on September 30, 2024.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.
I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
I think with the proliferation of mobile devices and then, eventually, the Internet of Things, we literally have supercomputers in our pockets and supercomputers that will hang on telephone poles and in light bulbs.
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.
A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed.
SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
We're crafting versions of our TotalGuide Solution to work on both legacy devices as well as new and advanced boxes with varying levels of services based on the capabilities of the set-top box and network.
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.
We get dopamine in the brain when we like something a lot. Well, cellphones stimulate dopamine, too. So it really is the case that there are some people who are pretty addicted to these devices.
I am not the enemy of tech - I sleep at night with my iPhone on my heart, I'm just as addicted to my devices as every other human walking down the street through a red light in traffic while texting.
Mobile devices have given us greater freedom and flexibility than ever before, while social platforms help us collaborate more effectively.
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot of our life on a laptop, or even smaller devices that we hold in our hands.
But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
I want broadband to grow, more mobile devices available, particularly in underprivileged communities. I want STEM education to go ahead and fund the next generation of engineers.
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
One great feature of Roblox is all mobile players join the same game servers as desktop players, connecting users across devices in a shared virtual world.
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage - deciding what's important to cover and what isn't - and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.
If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.
Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.
How can we maximize the benefit of our nightly sleep? Turn off cell phones, computers, televisions, and any other distracting devices before bedtime to establish an atmosphere of calm and restfulness.
You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.
One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
