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Objects can be classified scientifically into three major...

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

Quote by Russell Baker about objects, work

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence...

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Quote by Levi Strauss about objects, human imperfections

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about nightmare, emotions, objects, mind, world

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please...

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Quote by Francis Bacon about objects, memory

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into...

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

Quote by Russell Baker about objects, work

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a...

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about being, things

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about objects, present, self-control, fire, fire brigade

What interested me was looping the events in such a way...

What interested me was looping the events in such a way that each time they reappeared, they created new musical objects. The idea of tautology.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about objects, events, idea, time

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, ...

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about attack

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and...

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

Quote by Billy Joel about purpose, career, thinking, good, good luck

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, objects, present, future, human imperfections, moment

If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you...

If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will get more than your fair share of objectives to take.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war

Odd objects attract fire - never lurk behind one.

Odd objects attract fire - never lurk behind one.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, objects, fire, fire brigade

By making expensive modifications you increase the...

By making expensive modifications you increase the gravitational attractions between your car and large objects.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, objects

Intelligence is the ability of seeing and reproducing in...

Intelligence is the ability of seeing and reproducing in an objective manner everything that exists and happens.

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about intelligence, purpose, ability

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have...

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once.

Quote by Camille Paglia about culture, objects, talking, history

Beauty is our weapon against nature, by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Quote by Camille Paglia about nature, beauty, limits, objects

You know it's always amazed me I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Quote by Brian De Palma about happiness, purpose, couple, things

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to...

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about love, objects, mind

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, objects, reality, action

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