Computer Screen Quotes - Page 2

• I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

  Ayelet Waldman

  Honesty, Mean, Computer

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• Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Welcome, Computer, Excuse

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• 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

  Cutting, Opportunity, Style

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• I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

  Abraham Verghese

  Important, Way, Patient

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• When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.

  Rudy Rucker

  Garden, Thinking, Smartphones

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• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Reading, Library

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• When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Kissed by an Angel”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Years, Icons, America

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• 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

  Office Space, Eight, Boss

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• I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!

  Fan Bingbing

  Sitting, Computer, Umbrella

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

  Pattiann Rogers

  White, Space, Silence

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

  Brad Listi

  Tired, Vacation, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the things that happens when we're feeling more love and care is that we go into what's called "heart rhythm coherence," which you can actually measure and monitor on a computer screen. It's also possible to train yourself to go into heart rhythm coherence at will.

  Marci Shimoff

  Heart, Feelings, Care

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.

  Terry Mosher

  Cartoon, Looks, Computer

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Thinking, Years, News

  "Mark Burnett Brings Reality TV to the Web" by Jonathan Silverstein, abcnews.go.com. January 31, 2006.

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• The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

  Dave Barry

  Trying, Pieces, Messages

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• When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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• If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Girl, Doe, Body

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• Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

  Christian Marclay

  Hands, Sitting, Computer

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• I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

  Laurel Clark

  Data, Looks, Might

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• Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Research, Television, Computer

  "Science and Democracy" by Lewis M. Branscomb and Andrew A. Rosenberg, The Scientist, www.the-scientist.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.

  Judith Krug

  Real, Eye, Should Have

  "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 199.

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• I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.

  Keira Knightley

  People, Digital, Photographer

  "Keira Knightley By Patrick Demarchelier". Interview with Patrick Demarchelier, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 23, 2014.

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• When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

  Ellen MacArthur

  Light, Land, Want

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• 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 Tufte

  Dog, Real, Book

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