Inanimate Quotations

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.

My contribution to this whole thing is I was the first DJ to take an inanimate object called the turntable and play it like it was an instrument.

Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

We are the intersection of inanimate objects and people. If we don't find ways to invite and engage as many people as possible, then we have failed.

there are no inanimate objects ...

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

You are the father of this animate and inanimate world, and the greatest guru to be worshipped.

A lot of people get around with canes and dogs, ... I've always been a dog lover, and to pick between an inanimate object like a cane and a dog, there was no question in my mind.

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

The nature, under My supervision, creates all animate and inanimate objects; and thus the creation keeps on going.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him

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.

What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

Is Art worth dying for? Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

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

Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.