I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
. . . the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ. . . Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus. . . Rooms in dreams are usually women. . . Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments. . . these rooms are future ruins
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale.
Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.
. . . one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.
Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.
Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed. I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there
Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds.