A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As Einstein queried, 'Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I'm shaving?' Shaving is like meditation… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love… — Leonid Feodorov Copy Share Image
It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.” — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I collect a lot of cursed objects. That's probably why I have a lot of problems. — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it. — Janet Fish Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image