Clicks Quotes - Page 9

• Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.

  Emily Dickinson

  Light

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• And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.

  Julia Quinn

  Taken, Doors, Pay

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• These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone's happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don't go. When we look and see what's happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours.

  Cesar Chavez

  Leadership, Moving, Sacrifice

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• Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.

  Cat Deeley

  Use, Stylist, Firsts

  "Five things I know about style: Cat Deeley". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2011.

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• Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Cameras, Needs

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 23, 2012.

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• I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.

  Conrad Hilton

  Silence, Listening, Done

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• Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Space, Library

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wall, Night, Doors

  Oliver Goldsmith (1805). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Etc”, p.32

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• Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in ... you're up and down, all of a sudden, it just clicks. And I think that's what's happened to me since I got to Montreal. And I'm proud of the things we've been able to accomplish ... we've all made each other great.

  Anthony Calvillo

  Thinking, Effort, Proud

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• The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

  Alex Tabarrok

  People, Giving, Leaving

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• Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

  Eli Pariser

  Mirrors, Watches, Way

  "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You". Book by Eli Pariser, 2011.

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• The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

  Ben Katchor

  Technology, Light, Rooms

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• Oh baby," he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers. The bathroom door clicks shut. She stays there for a long time. He's pulling his hair out.

  Lisa McMann

  Baby, Fall, Hair

  "Fade". Book by Lisa McMann, books.google.ru. August 5, 2010.

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• By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Doors, Way

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

  Marian Keyes

  Morning, Worry, Brain

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• It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Pages, Used

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• You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.

  John Green

  Book, Interesting, President

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.89, Penguin

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• So what are you suggesting?" Grandfather asked. "We find a more acceptable group of people, then bring the Sacrifice to them? How do you propose we find them, a Facebook post? 'Click here to apply for eternal life'?

  Hilary Duff

  Sacrifice, People, Grandfather

  Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

  Haruki Murakami

  Light, Giving, Benefits

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• Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Three, Domes

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• Too bad you didn't just take Max up on his offer, Four. Well, too bad for you, anyway," says Eric quietly as he clicks the bullet into its chamber. My lungs burn; I haven't breathed in almost a minute. I see Tobias's hand twitch in the corner of my eye, but my hand is already on my gun. I press the barrel to Eric's forehead. His eyes widen, and his face goes slack, and for a second he looks like another sleeping Dauntless soldier. My index finger hovers over the trigger. "Get your gun away from his head," I say. "You won't shoot me," Eric replies. "Interesting theory. " I say.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Sleep, Gun

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• There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done." "Sounds easy enough." "Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?" "Maybe later," said Gracious. "How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan.

  Derek Landy

  Wall, Good Luck, Kissing

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• Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

  Marie Lu

  Gun, Sound, Want

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.167, Penguin

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• I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

  Nick Clegg

  Thinking, Government, Attention

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