Never fight an inanimate object.

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

— Tino Sehgal

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

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

— John Lasseter

“She? You’re not one of those people who name their cars and coffee mugs, are you? It’s an inanimate object. Get over it.”

— Susan Ee

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…

— Tim Burton

It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license...…

— Jeff Dunham

Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants,…

— John Tyler Bonner

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,…

— Henry Selick

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

— Darren Criss

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

— George Clooney

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

— Jeff Dunham

I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary.

— Mike Flanagan

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

— Michael Polanyi

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

— Philip Treacy

“It was just a book. An inanimate object. The only power it held was what she chose to give it. It could only be…

— Julia Quinn