#objects

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #objects




Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.


Jeanette Winterson


#art-objects #art

Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you.


Siobhan Vivian


#change

When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father’s archaic restrictions and my mother’s culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap.


Nell Grey


#objects-of-desire #short-story-collection #solstice #home

Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked. T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'Old Misery's savings,' he said. 'Mike ripped out the mattress, but he missed them.' 'What are you going to do? Share them?' 'We aren't thieves,' T. said. 'Nobody's going to steal anything from this house. I kept these for you and me - a celebration.' He knelt down on the floor and counted them out - there were seventy in all. 'We'll burn them,' he said, 'one by one,' and taking it in turns they held a note upwards and lit the top corner, so that the flame burnt slowly towards their fingers. The grey ash floated above them and fell on their heads like age. 'I'd like to see Old Misery's face when we are through,' T. said. 'You hate him a lot?' Blackie asked. 'Of course I don't hate him,' T. said. 'There'd be no fun if I hated him.' The last burning note illuminated his brooding face. 'All this hate and love,' he said, 'it's soft, it's hooey. There's only things, Blackie,' and he looked round the room crowded with the unfamiliar shadows of half things, broken things, former things. 'I'll race you home, Blackie,' he said. ("The Destructors")


Graham Greene


#love #materialism #money #objects #things

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #inanimate #inanimate-objects #interpretation #literature

The object of your desire is not an object.


Jack Gardner


#objects #zen #zen

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.


Peter Benchley


#believe #blaming #i #inanimate #objects

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.


John Burns


#am #continue #doing #done #ever

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.


Henry Fielding


#appetites #applied #delight #favorite #kinds