Objects Quotes

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

The object is that which is objected against me.

I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do think Anarchist Nihilist Puppet Show is my day job.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and it's about two women and that's what I'm working on to direct.

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.

I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.