Quotes about Screen
Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
— Exodus 40:21
The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.
— Sean Covey
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
— Paulo Coelho
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
— George Clooney
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
— George Eliot
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
— Bill Gates
Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.
— Graham Greene
Must-see TV.
— Anonymous
I am surprised that General Ruin, when she was in zero gee in outer space, did not fall in the direction we call "space-down," travelling in the same direction as the bombs dropped from bomber ships in reel one. We all know objects in outer space are pulled by gravity from the top of the screen to the bottom.
— John C. Wright
A psychologist flashed hundreds of words on a screen and used an electric gadget to measure emotional reactions. High marks went to darling. So I used it in a headline for Dove.
— David Ogilvy
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
— Ann Voskamp
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson