Objects Quotes

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as who they are. They can't be reduced to objects of derision.

The object is freedom.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

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

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

The simulator is an object in itself, which is different from televison and leads to cyberspace.

Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

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.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.

It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.