Object Quotes

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The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as… — Juan Goytisolo
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other. — Edmund Husserl
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from… — Zahi Hawass
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. — Charles Kettering
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our unique sense of… — Rudolf von Laban
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and… — James J. Gibson
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object… — George Lakoff
Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition… — Margaret Atwood
You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and… — Dave Rowntree
Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite.… — Ward Cunningham
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my… — Susan B. Anthony
I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle… — William Eggleston
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near… — Vikram Seth
Isnâ€™t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isnâ€™t the object always absent? â€”This isnâ€™t the same languor: there are two… — Roland Barthes
Donâ€™t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals. — Reed Hastings
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted… — Andrew Jackson
And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the… — Jennifer Egan
Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much… — Michael Cunningham
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business… — Vance Palmer

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