Quotes for All
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
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
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
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage. Audrey Niffenegger
Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I’d wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks … Read more
Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say good morning in public without being liquored up. Amelia Gray
When I’m writing it’s as if I’m the observer. It’s as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter – just kind of dissolves and there’s this whirling tunnel of mist and there’s a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I … Read more
Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away. Al Gore
Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It’s a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings. Ralph Nader
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