Video Quotes

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. (Carl Sagan)
I don't think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you'd be much more shocked. View quote
Jared Leto
I'm a video game buff. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations. View quote
David S. Goyer
My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. View quote
Chris Brown
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it. View quote
Corin Nemec
Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning. View quote
Namie Amuro
Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen. View quote
Nina Blackwood
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. View quote
Ken Thompson
There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show. (Aaliyah)
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs. View quote
Michael Shermer
The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs. View quote
Thom Yorke
Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store. View quote
Roger Ebert
"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. View quote
Guillermo del Toro
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Hexapodia as the key insight... I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs? View quote
Vernor Vinge
There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play. View quote
Reggie Fils-Aimé
You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way. View quote
Meg Cabot
You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important. (Ned Vizzini)
I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video. View quote
Rick Riordan
I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before. View quote
Tom Chatfield
I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible. View quote
Tom Chatfield
The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there. View quote
Sean Covey