object Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about object.
“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”
- Wilde, Oscar
“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
- Thomas B. Macaulay
“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”
- Gaston Bachelard
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.”
- Laurence J. Peter
“I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.”
- Serge Lang
“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.”
- John Portman
“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”
- Simone Weil
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
- John Keats
“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.”
- John Portman
“One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.”
- James K. Polk