Inert Quotes

82 Inert quotes by 74 unique authors

Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just… — Philip Guston
I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You… — Philip Guston
A man must be very inert to have no character at all. — Jean de la Bruyere
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. — Salvatore Quasimodo
We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering,… — Pablo Neruda
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy,… — George Orwell
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the… — Wallace Stevens
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed… — Umberto Eco
[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68). — Neil Postman
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain… — Leonora Carrington
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer. — Jonathan Safran Foer
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is… — Alejandra Pizarnik
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,… — Rebecca Solnit
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in… — Paul Auster
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are… — Stephen King
I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless… — Jose Rizal
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. — Siri Hustvedt
No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation.… — Albert Camus
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black… — Frantz Fanon
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a… — Antony Gormley
Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have… — Lawrence Hargrave

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