Objects Quotes

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.