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Quotes About Inanimate

Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.
~ China Mieville
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.
~ Peter Drucker
"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
~ George Clooney
The holomovement which is 'life implicit' is the ground both of 'life explicit' and of 'inanimate matter', and this ground is what is primary, self-existent and universal. Thus we do not fragment life and inanimate matter, nor do we try to reduce the former completely to nothing but an outcome of the latter.
~ David Bohm
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
~ William Shakespeare
For the longest time I was so sick I didn't have the strength or inclination to read, but looking at my books stacked up on the bedside table was comforting, like having old friends sitting in the room with me, friends who didn't require anything of me, friends who brought me great pleasure just with their presence, waiting until I could engage with them again.... bibliophiles know the inanimate pleasure of the friendship with books.
~ Unknown
Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and in all cases, their size and their material construction are totally different matters even though they affect one another.
~ John Tyler Bonner
in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question being asked, a different question for every entity, which for the most part will never be put into words, even by those who can speak.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.
~ Peter F. Drucker
All we know is that things happen. More accurately, God is the urging-forward force within all things, and all things (if "things" can be spoken of at all) are alive. The ontological matrix is a way in which His urging or thinking is manifested; so in that respect I think it's not time which moves forward, carrying us with it like a great tide, but that we are driven forward all of us together, animate and inanimate.
~ Philip K. Dick
People have moral standing and inanimate objects don't—people can be harmed, but inanimate objects can only be damaged. But where do all the other life-forms stand? Oddly enough, our judgments about this depend in large measure on where we position them on the great chain of being. This ancient, discredited, prescientific model of the cosmos still unconsciously serves as a guideline for our moral judgments.
~ David Livingstone Smith
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to lady crack pipe or good sir dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?
~ David Sedaris
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
~ David Sedaris
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.
~ Zbigniew Herbert
He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.
~ Scott Adams
You've been avoiding me, he said, talking to the sandwich. I laughed. He looked over at me. Sorry. I just realized that you talk to a lot of inanimate objects.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
The next most important preference is TF, which determines the kind of judgment that is easier and more agreeable to use. People who prefer thinking are more skillful in handling matters that deal with inanimate objects, machinery, principles, or theories—none of which have any inconsistent and unpredictable feelings and all of which can be handled logically.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognise my moods in the motionless suffering of things.
~ Italo Calvino
If I knew how to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subject and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognize my moods in the motionless suffering of things. Miss
~ Italo Calvino
Lifeless with a heartbeat.
~ Unknown
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
~ Philip Treacy
I found myself forgetting about Luke, who was standing there emoting all over the place, and watching the robot to see if its performance was going properly!" Kershner says. "That happened time and again, so I would have to pull myself back and concentrate on the actor. Without him, nothing was going to happen. But it's hard to admit that my directing talent may be judged by the performance of an inanimate object.
~ J.W. Rinzler
There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano.
~ Marcel Proust