Object Quotes
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..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
Baruch Spinoza
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Life in the ultimate analysis has taught me one enduring lesson. The subject should always disappear in the object.
Aga Khan III
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As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.
Akiva Goldsman
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Plato
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
Victor Hugo
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To model an object is to possess it.
Pablo Picasso
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He was there. He heard our opinions. He did not object or defend himself.
Michael Baden
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A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
Aristotle
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Don't object so much, you'll live longer.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees
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People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.
Naoto Fukasawa
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
Sigmund Freud
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A motivation-encompassing attitude may have either a goal or a means as its object.
Alfred Mele
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When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
Alan Lee
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Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object.
Elaine Equi
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I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.
Willa Fitzgerald
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A 3D printer needs three elements: a bit of information, some raw material, some energy, and it can produce any object that was not there before.
Riccardo Sabatini
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Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.
Brian Christian
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Richard Schickel