Object Quotes

2140 quotes by 1419 authors

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the… — Susanne Langer
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have… — Ron Wyden
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion… — Jasper Johns
The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol. — Ai Weiwei
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of… — Stan Brakhage
We tend to mistake music for the physical object. — David Byrne
The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and… — Conrad Black
You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and… — Bill Viola
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will. — Thomas Keating
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike. — Theodore Dalrymple
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in… — Annie Besant
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between… — Auguste Comte
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government. — Thomas Jefferson
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.… — Henry Van Dyke
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do, will… — Curtis Judalet
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile, or seems so important to him as an… — Alfred Hamilton Barr
A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means… — James Madison
Our object in framing the Constitution is rally two-fold: (1) To lay down the form of political democracy, and (2) To lay down that our… — B R Ambedkar
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can… — Federico Fellini

Who Wrote These Object Quotes

1,419 authors contributed a total of 2,140 Object Quotes, led by these top contributors: