Objects Quotations | Page 2

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

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

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

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.

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.

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

When the objects were presented in a sparse array, search times to find the target were similar for displays composed of simple and complex objects. But when the same objects were presented as dense clutter, search functions were steeper for displays composed of complex objects.

One develops attachment to sense objects by thinking about sense objects. Desire for sense objects comes from attachment to sense objects, and anger comes from unfulfilled desires.

One attains peace in whose mind all desires enter without creating any disturbance, as river waters enter the full ocean without creating a disturbance. One who desires material objects is never peaceful.

Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.

Pleasures derived from the contact of senses with their objects are verily the source of misery, and have a beginning and an end.

Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing sensible to say to them. Haven't we learned in the last thousand years that the more we confront objects with the reflection of their appearance, the more silent they become?

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.

Mr Getty had incredible taste. Not only for the beauty of objects but for desiring a collection that was as full chronologically as possible.

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman

Men just aren't viewed as sex objects in the same way that women are. Women don't think about men being naked in the same way that men think about women.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

Most of the shining objects that our people see over Iran's airspace are American spying equipment used to spy on Iran's nuclear and military facilities,

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

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.

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

I can't predict what that value might be, but it is fantastically interesting to me to have a chance, maybe within my lifetime, for scientists to see up-close what those objects look like and to begin our reconnaissance of that region of space.

Giving cash rewards is one of the least-effective means of motivating employees. While money may induce short-term involvement, it does not create motivation for the long term. Merchandise has a residual value over cash because the objects serve as reminders.

If any of the bright objects come close, they will definitely meet our fire. We possess the necessary equipment to confront them,

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

Ceramic objects are some of the oldest human documents we have. Being a potter, I like to make reference to that in art.

Business Objects is a company that is positioned in a growing market with a technology that is far and away the market leader, ... I am here to help kick start the company into hyper-growth.

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I don't believe we should classify planetary objects by location. We should use properties of the objects as a guide.

Basically, the idea is doing beautiful objects that you put together, ... So a lot of freedom -- in fact, we call it surplus because the idea is mixing materials, embroidery, sporty things.

Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .

Her life becomes a testing ground for these objects. The objects then become testimonies, reports. They become an image of thinking about everyday decisions in a new way.

We are finally starting to see the remnants of some of the oldest objects in the universe.

We think demand for arts and crafts furniture and objects and 20th century decorative arts and stylish things are going to continue to be very much in demand and with that in view we will be holding a special sale of these items on February 28.

We're observing at wavelengths where the galaxy is more transparent, and we're bringing tens of millions of objects into the equation.

Humans do a rough categorization of objects very quickly. For instance, in just a tenth of a second, we can recognize whether something we see is an animal or not. Our results show that this immediate, rough impression probably depends on recognizing just one or more individual parts of what we see. Fine discriminations such as recognizing individual faces take longer to happen, and our study suggests that this delay depends upon emerging signals for combinations of shape fragments. In a sense, the brain has to construct an internal representation of an object from disparate pieces.

He didn't want to collect objects that had an association with death.

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

What makes this different from forced-air heat is that we heat the objects that come into contact with the floor.

My mother said azaleas are like decorative objects -- you should move them at will. She had no compunction about moving a plant if it wasn't doing its job.

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

Organizations are placing a premium on the value of accurate, complete, and timely information. Enterprise information management provides Business Objects with a significant competitive advantage in what we can offer our customers, and we expect it to play an important role in our future growth plans.

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

It is fantastically interesting to me to have a chance, maybe within my lifetime, for scientists to see up-close what those objects look like and to begin our reconnaissance of that region of space.

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

Like objects in the rear-view mirror, the impact of Social Security's looming crisis is closer than it appears.

I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.

Three days later, the two objects were still there, and they were moving counterclockwise around Pluto, ... It made for a convincing case.

Today, the voters of Wisconsin sent a clear message. The message is this -- objects in your mirror may be closer than they appear, ... They want a debate. They want this campaign to continue. They want someone who will stand up and fight for them.

Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left for their own thoughts, can feel no respect for themselves, and learn little consideration for humanity.

We know of 17 objects that could be called planets, most of which are ice dwarfs. So Pluto is typical of what is probably the most populous type of planet in our solar system. It probably mimics other Kuiper Belt objects.

We've discovered a new class of object, and we need to use Spitzer to measure the infrared spectra of a lot more of these objects to learn how unique they really are.

That was somewhat surprising because ground-based observers had been trying for more than a decade to find new satellites around Pluto. But I felt almost certain even when I first saw them that they were real objects not any sort of artifact and that they were exhibiting orbital motion around Pluto.

Most of the objects here are really quite simple and fit into the feeling of the room. It's a room that's meant to be lived in.

We found a way to give players a variety of games. The games are the same, the mathematics are the same, and the objects of the games are the same. But there is just a little variation.

We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program,

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.

We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and the satisfaction come from using the objects to glean an understanding of a culture and a society so many years ago.

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are

We hope to discover a few more large objects in the outer solar system.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

Desire creates its own object.

there are no inanimate objects ...

My main object in life is to see what will happen next.

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

Theology is a subject without an object

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

We're living in a time when everyone is so certain ... to me, it's OK not to have the answers. The argument of the movie is, 'Is it possible?' And I did a lot of reading about these things and I don't know the answer. What do you do with objects moving in rooms? People speaking languages that they don't know? Animals appearing out of nowhere?

We are dealing with water 250 feet deep and recovering and locating small objects ... is a daunting effort.

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.