Objects Quotations | Page 4

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.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

These large tubes ... were viewed by the detainees as objects of torture. They were forcibly shoved up the detainees' noses and down into their stomachs.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

It means using the camera phone not as a picture-taker, but as a scanner capturing metadata about products or services related to objects around us. I think we'll see more of this in coming years.

It's almost an art restoration. We tend to regard the Frank Lloyd Wright building as one of the greatest objects in the collection.

As two massive objects pass near each other, gravitational forces induce dramatic physical changes -- decompressing, melting, stripping material away and even annihilating the smaller object.

As we look at the landscape for the next several years, we believe all objects will be networked. Everything will have a relation to the network. We believe that's what the future holds, and we also believe that only the service providers with the broadest reach will be able to support it.

The objects are very beautiful and important in and of themselves, but also because of the story they tell.

The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, 'Hey, thank you for the good work today...' By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment.

It's still comparatively small now, but I see endless potential. Realize that 10 million objects have so far been built by our members. I'm stunned by people's endless desire to create.

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

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.

It was the first of those movies that generated this whole food chain of merchandising and objects and sequels and re-releases and what-have-you over a period of time. It wasn't the one movie by itself but everything around.

It makes storing objects locally or on the Web essentially follow the same process.

This is the only such debris disk among the 33 sun-like stars we've studied in our project so far, and one of only five such objects known.

This is the philosophical meaning of the word idea; and we may observe that this meaning of that word is built upon a philosophical opinion: for, if philosophers had not believed that there are such immediate objects of all our thoughts in the mind, they would never have used the word idea to express them.

They really like using real objects while they are playing. They like real kitchen items and real hammers and nails.

I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.

As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.

I can take a single wide-angle of the scene in low-res (including all the objects of low interest like sky and trees). Then I can take a camera and zoom to the area where trucks drive into a warehouse to get the driver and the license plate and a wide-angle picture of the side of the truck. But you do not have to record the low interest items in high-resolution.

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Being bound to the world with attachment to worldly objects is negative approach.

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object ...

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

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

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

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

In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.

Don't object so much, you'll live longer.

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

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.

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

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

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

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

Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.

The object of war is to survive it.

The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

True love has no object. It is a state of being.

The only object of liberty is life.

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

The love that exists between wife and husband is infatuation. The love that exists among friends and relations is attachment. The love towards material objects is desire. Love in totality, directed towards God is known as devotion.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

I object to every single thing you just said.

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

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

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

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

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.

Women aren't objects that you look at only on weekends.

The Text is not a definitive object.

It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

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 aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.