#objects

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In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.


Saul Bellow


#angeles #been #california #collected #country

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.


Henri Bergson


#especially #faculty #intelligence #make #making

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?


Algernon H. Blackwood


#alas #beautiful #chiefly #deed #emotions

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.


Guy Debord


#apparent #compensate #fragmented #identify #life

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.


David Byrne


#objects #often #ridicule #sheds #suburban

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.


Millicent Fawcett


#assertion #chief #coming #does #failed

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.


Edna Ferber


#beautiful #dignified #living #living thing #longevity

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.


Eugene Chadbourne


#common #contact #din #horrible #i

We have persistant objects, they're called files.


Ken Thompson


#files #objects

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.


Denis Waitley


#beauty #come #create #dust #goodness