Inanimate Objects Quotes

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

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

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.

There are no inanimate objects.

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.