Cecil Beaton Quotes

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Cecil Beaton

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• Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Effect
  • Device

• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Technology
  • Rock
  • Balance

• An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Powerful

• For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Device

• It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Song
  • Miracle
  • Created

• I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Motive
  • Device
  • Rays

• Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Device

• The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Metaphor
  • Device
  • Desktop

• It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.

  

  Georgiana Burne-Jones
  • Trouble
  • Device
  • Payment

• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Device

• It could be something like Scotch Tape, where you just roll it out and stick in on the back of your device and go.

  

  Angela Belcher
  • Stick
  • Device
  • Roll Out

• I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

  

  Harry Cohn
  • Picture
  • Device

• The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Proud
  • Wealth
  • Opinions

• A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Change
  • Trouble
  • Device

• There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Long
  • Satisfying

• Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Lines
  • Straight
  • Mechanisms

• I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Soul
  • Feelings
  • Voice

• The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.

  

  Albert E. Bowen
  • Law
  • Security
  • Honest

• Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Government
  • Majority
  • Ministers

• There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Wisdom
  • Mankind
  • Cheated

• On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

  

  Cecil Beaton
  • Device
  • Jukebox
  • Funereal