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Quotes About Static

The static's nice. I could do without the screeching." "Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful . Like old jazz.
~ Peter Watts
Radio voices have a solid, even texture.
~ Dev Hynes
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.
~ Cynthia Ozick
There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.
~ Jenny Slate
H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]
~ Jonathan Franzen
Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Besides, static isn't so bad to listen to. Beats listening to your thoughts when your thoughts are a scramble of stories and you're having trouble telling what's real and what's a dream and what's a coincidence and what's basically what.
~ Aaron Starmer
will see a warning from Visual Studio that the FormsAuthentication.Authenticate method has been deprecated. This is part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts to rationalize user security, which is a thorny area for any web application framework. For this chapter, the deprecated method will suffice and allow me to perform authentication using the static details I added to the Web.config file.
~ Adam Freeman
This is a strange conundrum that betrays our difficulties with classifying life, and our adherence to a system that was designed to show the perfection of divine creation, organisms static in time and set in stone as they stand before us. Darwin's great idea ruined that ideal, because he recognized that life passes through time, and changes continually. The only life forms that don't change are dead ones.
~ Adam Rutherford
I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.
~ Donna Karan
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
~ Robert Smithson
One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.
~ Joshua Bloch
The behavior of this program is counterintuitive because selection among overloaded methods is static, while selection among overridden methods is dynamic.
~ Joshua Bloch
Every meditator carries an enormous amount of baggage in the form of mental static. This provides fuel for noisy thought-engines that seem to be constantly running.
~ David A. Cooper
There'd be no molecules, no chemistry and, hence, no life without static cling.
~ James Kakalios
I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.
~ George A. Romero
Racist behavior in our society is largely static, unnoticed, unremarked, and unconsciously accommodated by Americans of all colors.
~ Randall Robinson
Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
~ Edmund Burke
When we are able to realize that life is endless and not ephemeral and that life is transformational and not static—then all fears will vanish from our hearts.
~ Debasish Mridha
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
It would be astonishing if the details of a primitive, static society's collapse had any relevance to hidden dangers that may be facing our open, dynamic and scientific society, let alone what we should do about them.
~ David Deutsch
Browning cut, trimmed, ignored and generally sabotaged the screenplay's visual potentials, insisting on static camera setups, eliminating reaction shots and special effects, and generally taking the lazy way out at every opportunity.
~ David J. Skal
Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.
~ E.L. Konigsburg