Quotes About Objects

Want to see the collection of inhaled and swallowed objects?" she asked. "You're kidding, right?" She made her eyes wide. "Oh, I never kid about inhaled and swallowed objects.

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler.

OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all.

I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example, was a fluidlike substance called 'caloric' that flowed from hot objects to colder ones.

Las palabras son a las cosas lo que el deseo es al objeto de deseo.

The major thrust of the criticism leveled against Piaget's theory of infant development comes from the neonativist enterprise that argues that core knowledge and the abilities to represent and reason about physical reality (e.g., objects, causality, space) are innate (see Bremner, 2001; Cohen & Cashon, 2006, for reviews).

Kant argued that the mind has both receptive capacities and spontaneous capabilities, both operative in human knowledge. For Kant (1787/1933, B74, B93), knowledge has its origin in sensory capacities to receive representations and in intellectual capabilities for knowing objects through them.

It is this active relationship between the subject and the objects that are charged with meanings which creates the association and not the association which creates this relationship" (OI, p. 131).

For Piaget, the differentiation and coordination of sensorimotor schemes leads to the construction of increasingly complex relations between objects in the world (OI, p. 211).

Furthermore, objects at these substages are experienced as direct extension of the previous action.

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Postmodernism is part of a recent tradition in the humanities that opposes the idea that language should be analyzed as a system used to represent, or stand for; objects and situations in the world. This anti-representationalist view of language influenced a lot of literary theory, as well as other humanistic disciplines, in the latter part of the twentieth century. Postmodernism is a spectacular outgrowth of that line of thought.

We tend to connect our memories of the important moments in our lives, the places where we lived, and the people we loved to objects. Seeing these things allows us to replay and refresh those memories.

The linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a language, but not a language like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself.)

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together. So much of the information we received was ephemeral -- pixels on screen, words passing in the air. But here I felt that thoughts had weight.

It was the artist's duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience's job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to work, it was their fault, not yours.