Inert Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.