#device

Not all that is mortal is useless. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#infernal-devices #tessa-gray #tessa-gray

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enable #invented #people #poetry #prayers

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#device #into #mathematician #theorems #turning

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ↗

— Monica Edwards

#case #dealing #device #happiness #her

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good. ↗

— Eric Braeden

#children #consequences #devices #good #home

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering. ↗

— John Dykstra

#build #camera #constantly #devices #down

If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#cable #could #device #dollars #everything

Will looked at him curiously. “Do you think you will see me again?” At the change in Jem’s expression, he added, “I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?” As Jem opened his mouth to answer, a rustling came from beneath their feet. Just as they both looked down, a tentacle shot from the surface of the river, wrapped itself around Jem’s ankle, and yanked him beneath the surface of the water. Will bolted to his feet with his blade in hand; the water was still boiling where the creature’s tentacles were thrashing wildly, indicating that Jem was getting some good blows in. Will’s heart pounded, firing blood and the call of battle through his veins. “Hell,” he said. “Just when it was getting interesting, too,” and he leaped into the water after his friend. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #change

Love potions? For Will 'erondale? 'Tain't my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you 'as got no need of love potions, and that's a fact." "No," Will said, a little desperation in his voice. "I was looking for the opposite, really -- something that might put an end to being in love." "An 'atred potion?" Mol still sounded amused. "I was hoping for something more akin to indifference? Tolerance?" She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. "I 'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want a girl to 'ate you, there's easy enough ways of making it 'appen. You don't need my help with the poor thing." And with that she vanished, spinning away into the mists among the graves. Will, looking after her, sighed. "Not for her," he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, "for me..." And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #the-infernal-devices #tid #will-herondale #love

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#device #i #i think #kind #projecting