I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them. — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good . — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites. — John Piper Copy Share Image
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now. — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives. — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time. — Stephen Bier, Jr Copy Share Image
To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image