Object Quotes

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.

Education has for its object the formation of character.