#objects

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #deal #far #get #know

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects. ↗

— Les Dawson

#every #every time #i #object #objects

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#among #familiar #feel #grow #learn

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#along #any #being #being done #done

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#events #feelings #form #giving #inner

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them. ↗

— Adam Savage

#again #also #appreciating #been #being

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#exterior #himself #man #objects #organs

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#museums #objects #time #love

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. ↗

— Charles Eames

#connects #eventually #everything #ideas #key