Objects Quotes · Page 120

The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy…

— Joe Queenan

In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,…

— Herbert Marcuse

“... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.”

— Julius Lester

Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden…

— Adam Zagajewski

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've…

— Pete Rose

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

— Milton Glaser

I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer,…

— Chelsea Cain

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

— Albert Einstein

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

— John Stuart Mill

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

— Rudolf Arnheim

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…

— Walter Pater

I collect a lot of cursed objects. That's probably why I have a lot of problems.

— Zak Bagans

I don't like lots of objects.

— Joanna Page

My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

— Adelaide Crapsey

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the…

— William Howard Taft

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of…

— Okky Madasari

Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course…

— Noam Chomsky

I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that…

— Ansel Adams

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

— Howard Rheingold

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

— John Maeda

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or…

— Herbert Read

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making…

— Adam Savage