Objects Quotes
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I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.
Scott Derrickson
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Bill Gaede
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When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
Rene Girard
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
William James
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All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.
Karl Mannheim
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.
Gary A. Kowalski
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
William Stanley Jevons
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What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.
Francis Chan
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I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
Sergio Leone
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When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
Darren McCarty
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Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
Moshe Safdie
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Abel Stevens
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To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
Milarepa
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It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
Brigham Young
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"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
George Clooney
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The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
Wendy Wasserstein
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Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.
Allan Kaprow
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
Blaise Pascal
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing
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The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.
William Blaikie
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How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
Dalma Heyn
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“The only value objects have is what people are willing to pay to own them.”
Vicki Delany