Quotes About Objects

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

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.

For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.

First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects!

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

It had the rhythm and suspense of a juggler adding more objects to the spinning collection already airborne. Sometimes

Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we see or hear that the objects of the senses are beautiful, we cannot feel that they are so. The difference is this: in feeling the beauty of objects, we enjoy not only the common, shared pleasures of the senses, but also the private pleasures of the imagination, peculiar to ourselves, and such that we have to struggle to articulate them.

This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same spot they were in over a decade ago, when they first met. Surely the reality is that connections between people aren't permanent, but fleeting and random, like a solar eclipse or clouds meeting in the sky. They exist in a constantly moving universe full of constantly moving objects.

Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other.

Our perception ends in objects, and the object, once constituted, appears as the reason for all the experiences of it that we had or that we could have.

The form is a visible or sonorous configuration (or even a configuration which is prior to the distinction of the senses) in which the sensory value of each element is determined by its function in the whole and varies with it...This same notion of form will permit us to describe the mode of existence of the primitive objects of perception. They are lived as realities, we have said, rather than known as true objects.

This unconscious is to be sought not at the bottom of ourselves, behind the back of our 'consciousness,' but in front of us, as articulations in our field. It is 'unconscious' by not being object but by being that through which objects are possible, it is the constellation from which our future may be read.

I am disappointed. Violette knows how I feel about smart girls turning into needy sex objects for dumb boys.

The birds that struggled to successfully locate crustaceans searched for snails and clams, with varying luck. However, a new option presented itself. An aroma pierced their nostrils, drawing their attention to a speck of light circling the island. The object was a quarter mile off, but judging by the motoring sounds, it was one of those large objects that carried clothed biped creatures across the water.

You don't define yourself. The objects you own define you. Capitalism defines what objects you must have, so capitalism defines you. Why is it so hard to overthrow capitalism? – because it defines your identity. It literally objectifies you. Your identity is established not by who you are but by what you have. The objects you own are more important than your talents and your personality. Anyone defined by objects doesn't have any talents or personality.

Boys often need us to give them more time than girls need, and they often need us to connect their feelings to objects in the outside world.

With composition, parts can't be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

Because of the fact that they failed in their socialisation process, serial killers treat their victims as mere objects that exist for the gratification of their own needs. They show no empathy for the victim.

The fact that Wilken was prepared to return to the decomposing bodies of some of his victims in order to commit necrophilia, indicates the extent to which he regarded them as objects for the gratification of his own needs and pleasures.

Es una desgracia esto de tener que servirse uno de las cosas —pensó Augusto—; tener que usarlas, el use estropea y hasta destruye toda belleza. La función más noble de los objetos es la de ser contemplados. ¡Qué bella es una naranja antes de comida!

It was becoming more and more clear that if the asteroids were the schools of minnows swimming among the pod of whales, then Pluto and the Kuiper belt objects were simply a previously overlooked collection of sardines swimming in a faraway sea.