Objects Quotes

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It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good… — Augusten Burroughs
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd… — Janet Fitch
In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them. — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them… — David Sedaris
We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but… — Saul Bellow
And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a… — Hans Christian Andersen
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in… — Brian Morton
The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. — Muriel Barbery
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which… — William Shakespeare
One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but… — Giorgio Agamben
When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. Iâ€™d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response… — Kelley Armstrong
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out… — Sylvia Plath
When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness.… — William P. Young
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject. — Gilles Deleuze
The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When… — James Redfield
A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of… — T.H. White
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. — Toni Morrison
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of… — Charles Dickens
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and… — Charles Dickens

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