Quotes with objects

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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Barbara Kruger What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Arne Jacobsen With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
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    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Pablo Picasso I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Denis Diderot We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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