Objects Quotes

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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing… — W. Somerset Maugham
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any… — Bill Bryson
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't… — David Levithan
We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's… — Pat Barker
For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How… — Diane Ackerman
Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing… — Jean-Paul Sartre
A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our… — Rick Yancey
I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. It occurred to me that if Grace and I were objects, she would be an elaborate… — Maggie Stiefvater
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their… — Alain de Botton
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession… — J. G. Ballard
I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in… — David Nicholls
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in… — Paul Auster
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or… — Edmund Burke
We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which… — Philip K. Dick
This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects. — David Levithan
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably… — Terry Pratchett
Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek… — Anais Nin
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters?… — Peter Shaffer
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in… — Jodi Picoult

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