Top 1200 Literary Devices Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That is, "There is literary fiction, and then there are lesser genres." I'm much more clear on the idea that literary fiction is itself a genre. It is not above other genres. It is down there in the muck with all the other genres, and it's doing the wonderful things that it does, but to give it a Y-axis, to make it high and low, just seems absurd. I stand by that.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether its on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

There's more energy-saving innovations in lighting. Smartphone and various devices hooked into the home can control the lights and mood.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Women, if left to their own devices, are going to tend and trend Democratic. That is absolutely the case.

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

Computing is a big segment. It's more than just mobile devices or PCs and laptops.

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

I'm supporting plans in Congress to fully ban bump stock devices and prohibit the sale of high-capacity magazines.

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

Our intelligence experts are rightly concerned about the use of the TikTok app, especially on U.S. government-issued devices.

Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.

I have the most guilty, abusive relationship with McDonald's. Left to my own devices, I'd probably eat four Big Macs a week.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.

I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and simultaneously transcends the conditions of its making. I would say that is the difference between literature and other kinds of writing. That is what the literary is - it ultimately doesn't matter what his circumstances were. And the thing that you were just saying about being sympathetic to Brontë and the fact that she could only write what she wrote when she wrote it... that's true. But look at that novel, which means so much to so many people.

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.

Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 2:30 or 3, but I can't do that if I'm getting up at 6:50!

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

GPS devices are fantastic, but when travelling, especially in the middle of Africa, you must always bring a map as well.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

I have no literary fears.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that. I don't like it as a reader, when I'm reading something. It's not just the elitism of it; it jolts me out of the mode in which I'm reading. I've immersed myself in the world and then when the light goes on I'm supposed to be making some kind of literary comparison to another text. I find I'm pulled out of my kind of fictional world, I'm asked to use my brain in a different kind of way. I don't like that.

These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.