Object Quotes

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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature… — Aaron Siskind
To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get… — David Sanborn
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no… — Ray Bradbury
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away. — Maggie Stiefvater
And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then,… — Minoru Yamasaki
The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm. — Huston Smith
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is… — Maria Montessori
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or… — Edward Zwick
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at… — Ross Parmenter
Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ... — Norman Foster
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this… — Max Weber
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience… — Rex Harrison
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the… — Monique Wittig
You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy… — Susanna Tamaro
You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly -… — Emmet Fox
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity… — Gerhard Richter
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world;… — Gerhard Richter
Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is,… — Dave Barry
Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to… — Dave Barry
To model an object is to possess it. — Pablo Picasso

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