Objects Quotes

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Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,â€”the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping… — John Burroughs
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself,… — Adam Savage
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? — Bernard Berenson
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which… — John Stuart Mill
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl… — William Wordsworth
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of… — Albert Einstein
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration;… — William McFee
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all… — Leonardo da Vinci
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.… — Jean Baudrillard
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what… — Walter Pater
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had… — John Stuart Mill
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with… — William O. Douglas
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even… — Mary McCarthy
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art. — Russell Lynes

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