Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not… — Peter Davenport Copy Share Image
...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with… — Donella Meadows 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
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense… — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need… — Kelly Lin Copy Share Image
No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He regarded the world-objects right in front of his face-as if from a great distance. For when he moved on the earth… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
