I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time. — Stephen Bier, Jr Copy Share Image
If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt,… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects;… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
“Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked. T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither… — Charles D. Broad Copy Share Image
One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view:… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the reality of another's fear is not to be estimated by our own attitude toward the object of… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
I've always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Jude, a bondslave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who by God the Father have been loved and are… — Kenneth Wuest Copy Share Image
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The object of your training in drawing should be to develop to the uttermost the observation of form and all that it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every… — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image