Objects Quotes

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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a… — Paul Auster
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. — Russell Baker
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. — Russell Baker
I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects. — John Banville
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. — Dave Barry
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the… — Saint Basil
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that… — Gregory Bateson
If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff… — Martha Beck
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. — Max Beerbohm
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down… — Saul Bellow
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. — Walter Benjamin
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Collecting is more than just buying objects. — Eli Broad
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch… — Julie Burchill
Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. — David Byrne
Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories… — Nicolas Cage

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