#objects

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#fence #flowers #i #i see #instance

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#black holes #concepts #construction #elements #holes

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#follows #globalization #law #logically #nature

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. ↗

— Jean Paul

#darkness #death #dying #evening #like

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#brain #clearly #common #constructs #created

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. ↗

— John Selden

#born #his #learning #man #matter

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. ↗

— Lucan

#chooses #ever #friendship #his #loyal

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#objects #politics #skilled #use

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#call #double #first #i #objects

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#distilled #i #interested #making #never