Objects Quotes
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
Georges Braque
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Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul.
Thomas Kinkade
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It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.
George Washington
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I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
Serge Lang
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
Richard Whately
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I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.
Richard Grossman
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I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
Thomas Nagel
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The great object is to find the theory of the matter of X-rays before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
Ernest Rutherford
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The first objects to be designed with the sole purpose of killing another person.
Adam Nicolson
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I want women to be the subject, not the object.
Jill Soloway
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What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
Miuccia Prada
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It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon.. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky.
Jimmy Carter
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... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
Charlotte Moss
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker
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When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.
Brian Swimme
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The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.
Gerd Sommerhoff
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Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.
Nicholas Johnson
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And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
Minoru Yamasaki
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
Minor White
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Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
Northrop Frye
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.
Raoul Vaneigem
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You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.
Terence McKenna
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
Lois McMaster