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We've found 26 quotes for 'smoke screen' (0.131 seconds):



"You are a Golden Witnessing screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and relaxed. - Sri Amit Ray" »Amit Ray 
"You are a Golden Witnessing screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen 24x7 clean, clear and relaxed. - Sri Amit Ray" »Amit Ray 
"Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy." »Amy Vanderbilt 
"It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle." »John Updike 
"Generally when there's a lot of smoke...there's just a whole lot more smoke." »George Foreman 
"If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go." »Groucho Marx 
"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad." »Samuel Goldwyn 
"Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist." »Rene Angelil 
"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them." »Steve Jobs 
"I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time." »Mark Twain 
"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." »Benjamin Disraeli 
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke." »Lynda Barry 
"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake." »Mark Twain 
"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." »Oliver Wendell Holmes 
"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke." »Vincent Van Gogh 
"The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke." »Edwina Currie 
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way." »Vincent Van Gogh 
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." »Tom Stoppard 
"The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country." »Learned Hand 
"The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door." »Anonymous 
"You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life." »John Updike, Rabbit Redux 
"pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department." »Jeff Meyer 
"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary." »Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe 
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet." »William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1. 
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." »Sophia Loren 
"There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially." »John Davy 
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