Top Device Quotes
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
Antony Jay
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
Armistead Maupin
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Charles Francis Richter
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The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
Dudley Moore 
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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
Peter Davison
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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
Lawrence Lessig
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken
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A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.
Michael Scheuer
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Whorf
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Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
Lloyd Alexander
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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
Donna Tartt
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