“The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.” Has BeensMadeLiteratureObjectsFaultsBobDylanRankingTokenism Author:David Bennun
“The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.” KindAmericaObjectsFoolHolyMainstreamRighteousBobThievesExploitationScornDylanImageryApocalypticHipsterParablesSuperficiality Author:Bob Dylan
“We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.” MindMiddleMovementFieldsObjectsSightSizeVisualsNoticing Author:Dale Jamieson
“How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me to stop her"? It seems like they're giving themselves a really tough position to occupy here, be they governors, senators, congressional members of the House of Representatives. They want to stop Hillary but not enough to keep her out of the White House. "So she'll get in there, but you need to elect us to put the brakes on her."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingEnoughHandsSeemsHouseWhitePositionObjectsMembersToughClintonWhite HouseGovernorsRepresentativesSenatorsBrakeHouse Of Representatives Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.” IfsPlayGamesWinningDecisionCasesObjectsOffersLogicStrategySatisfactionOpponentsRuthless Author:Anatoly Karpov
“In the beginning [of my social media life], I started posting and someone I'm close to said, "you're only posting pictures of yourself in your grungy pajamas. You're an actress be aspirational." Then I was like, "I'm not living an aspirational life on a day-to-day basis." For a while after that I was only taking pictures of, like, objects.” SaidSocialMediaObjectsBasesSocial MediaActressesDay To DayPajamasTaking PicturesPictures Of Yourself Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.” IdeasBigsProcessDifferencesObjectsBuildingCome Up Author:Zaha Hadid
“It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.” IdeasWould BeInterestingDesignObjectsEverydayEveryday LifeVery Interesting Author:Zaha Hadid
“Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and object to all the controversial things he says, and then say, but I`m still going to vote for him? Come on, man.” PeopleMenDoeStillsArtistDangerousObjectsVoteControversialMarcosCon Artist Author:Barack Obama
“It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.” ReasonFactsSexFocusObjectsCivilizationWomen Beauty Author:Hugh Hefner
“In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, traditional and high-tech plasters, stainless steel, automotive paint, plywood, Britannia metal, found objects and taxidermy animals.” HumansUseFoundAnimalObjectsMaterialsHairPaintStudiosWideTraditionalRangeMetalsPlasticSteelSculptureHumans And AnimalsDentalPlastersTaxidermyFound Objects Author:Patricia Piccinini
“There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.” MenYearsPersonsFeelingsMillionsFantasyObjectsCollegeHe ManYears AgoEmbraceCoreAssociationHis LoveHappy Thoughts Author:Jane Alison
“I'm always projecting onto objects like they're alive in some way.” WayAliveObjects Author:Richard McGuire
“I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.” LooksIndividualWonderObjectsColorPaintingSurfaceTexture Author:Mordicai Gerstein
“I think that's there are a couple of reasons for that. One is as you're introducing the fourth and fifth versions of these MacGuffins that we've been playing with for a long time, you wanna do something different with them and not just have them be an object passed around. So the notion that something is inherent in the literal body of one of your lead heroes is interesting. And the idea that the Eye of Agamotto's a great relic over the course of Doctor Strange comics anyway.” ThinkingLongIdeasDifferentReasonBodyEyeCoursesInterestingObjectsStrangeCoupleHeroLong TimeDoctorsNotionVersionsFourthIntroducingInherentFifthLiteralRelics Author:Kevin Feige
“I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.” ChurchObjectsSensationalism Author:Pierre Trudeau
“My definition of fake news is a content-like object that is a story, an article, a video, a tweet that has been fabricated, completely invented out of thin air, intentionally for the purpose of misleading.” Has BeensStoriesPurposeAirObjectsNewsDefinitionsVideoFakeArticlesMisleadTweetThin Air Author:Vivian Schiller
“My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation.” FirstsLittlesMadeEndsUsedSoundPiecesObjectsBoxesContactApplesTapeTubesFiltersMicrophonesRecordersMicsAmplifyBathtubsSearsReverberation Author:Pauline Oliveros
“My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.” FeelsI CanSituationMagicEventsObjectsCurrentsFamiliarThemeDaily LifeCurrent Events Author:Domenico Gnoli
“I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.” GivingI CanImportantLightBeautifulSpeakInterestImaginationCommonAttentionFrontsObjectsInvention Author:Domenico Gnoli
“I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.” ShowsWantedObjectsDocumentsArtifacts Author:Steven Sebring
“I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an impoverished view of the kinds of questions we humans can ask, such as "Why am I here?", "What happens after we die?", "Is there a God?" If you refuse to acknowledge their appropriateness, you end up with a zero probability of God after examining the natural world because it doesn't convince you on a proof basis.” IfsWorldHumansKindEndsMightHappensDiesAsksNaturalViewsObjectsConversationBasesRefuseProofAcknowledgeAssumptionConvinceZeroProbabilityNatural WorldExaminingAppropriateness Author:Richard Dawkins
“For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers, things like that, and these he associates with the intellect because they're the objects of intellect, they are things that intellect can think about.” ThinkingFormJusticeNumbersObjectsIntellectAssociatesTrue NaturePlatonic Author:Peter Adamson
“What the soul is doing is kind of walking through the forms, and so our experience of thinking isn't normally this kind of pure intuitive insight that intellect gets, and that intellect must get right, because it's always identical to its objects, it's always the same as the forms that it's thinking about.” ThinkingKindSoulFormObjectsWalkingPureInsightIntellectIntuitiveIdentical Author:Peter Adamson
“I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and it's about two women and that's what I'm working on to direct.” TwoBookObjectsDirect1930sAdapting Author:Katie Holmes
“I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.” ThinkingObjectsGenre Author:Sergio Leone
“Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.” ThinkingFilmBrainObjectsTheoryBallsConvincedGangsters Author:Sergio Leone
“Those who are wise ambassadors of the word have no other object in view than to free as far as they can their hearers from weak opinions, and to endue them with intelligence.” ViewsOpinionWiseObjectsWeakAmbassadors Author:Origen
“Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course in intellectual self-defense," and to suggest ways to proceed; in other words, to help people undermine the dedicated efforts to "manufacture consent" and to turn them into passive objects rather than agents who control their own fate.” PeopleWaySelfHelpingMightPurposeTurnsCoursesEffortFateObjectsReaderIntellectualDefenseAgentsDedicatedPassiveConsentSelf Defense Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?” HumansMeanIdeasDifferentClearHuman NatureObjectsAnts Author:Noam Chomsky
“Mixtapes, it's for everyone and you throw them in the trash quickly. While an album is an object that only your real fans take the trouble to buy and know you have prepared something special.” KnowsRealTroubleFansSpecialObjectsPreparedAlbumsTrashSomething SpecialMixtapes Author:Young Thug
“All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.” ObjectsPromiseObamacare Author:Reince Priebus
“Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing.” PeopleObjectsTraditionAskingWesternSatisfiedNarrativeMuseums Author:Kerry James Marshall
“To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to 'fly' as far as eagles under our own power.” WorldHumansFactsAbilityHuman NatureObjectsLimitsWingsChanging The WorldEaglesLamentAbility To Change Author:Noam Chomsky
“Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary process. I can't review here the strong and growing evidence to support this conclusion, but I have elsewhere. There are ample reasons why having a LOT would confer selectional advantage: the person so endowed could plan, interpret, reflect, etc., in ways denied to others.” WayFirstsKindPersonsI CanReasonLanguageStrongProcessSupportGrowingPlansObjectsCommunicationEvidenceAdvantageConclusionReason WhyEtcInternalsReviewsDeniedElsewhere Author:Noam Chomsky
“The simulator is an object in itself, which is different from televison and leads to cyberspace.” DifferentObjectsCyberspace Author:Paul Virilio
“Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.” ArtWholeRealityObjectsPaintingArt IsLandscapeOperaSculptureVansComposingWagner Author:Paul Virilio
“To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.” ArtStillsRealWholeRealityTechnologyPossibilityObjectsPaintSubstitutesEngineersLemonsVirtual RealityElectronicsStill LifePears Author:Paul Virilio
“There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!” YearsFirstsMeanRealityHumanityThreeFoundPrinciplesFiveObjectsPlanetsThousandComputerThirdsWeightPopulationExpertsBombsDigitalThousand YearsDemographicsAtomic Bomb Author:Paul Virilio
“The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.” WorldMeanSeemsAgeArtistEnergyForceModernObjectsCamerasPhotographRepresentingInner WorldModern Art Book:Jackson Pollock Source: Jackson Pollock
“Instead of physical objects, (in order to have faith in myself) I have my personal mottos/charms to keep myself motivated and then I smack my chest.” OrderObjectsCharmChestsMotivatedHave FaithMottoSmackSelf MotivatedPersonal Motto Author:Yunho
“You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you are fully present, you need only make a step or take a breath in order to enter the kingdom of God. And once you have the kingdom, you don't need to run after objects of your craving, like power, fame, sensual pleasure, and so on. Peace is possible. Happiness is possible.” IfsNeedsMindMomentsBodyRunningOrderPleasureStepsPracticeObjectsFameMindfulnessBreathsKingdomsSensualCravingKingdom Of GodSensual Pleasure Author:Nhat Hanh
“Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.” LooksSexGenerationsObjectsBattleFeministExtremesAttractiveJust BeingSexuallyStunningWallowing Author:Toni Morrison
“Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.” TryingHumansPastLife IsCan DoBornConsciousnessPiecesMeditationObjectsTenKarmaHuman LifeTiesStringsTiedOur PastYour PastLife Is LikeKnotsPast LifeChanting Author:George Harrison
“I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.” ThinkingArtistAnswersObjectsProvocation Author:Kehinde Wiley
“When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military.” AmericaNextSpaceRaceMilitaryFiguresObjectsConceptsInnovationDrivenSpace Race Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.” FeelsImportantMomentsChoicesDecisionSubjectsObjectsAffairFree Choice Author:C. S. Lewis
“I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring a song in a specific time and place. Sometimes the new words and objects are too enjoyable and descriptive to ignore. And maybe making work that acknowledges that it won't last forever is important, too.” LittlesImportantIdeasSometimesLastsSongLanguageEnjoyForeverEventsObjectsDatingContemporaryAcknowledgeShyEnjoyableNew Words Author:John K. Samson
“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.” HumansMatterProblemAnimalMagicObjectsTvsDegreesVictimShoesTricksCommoditySandwichesCellphoneInanimate ObjectsMagic Tricks Author:Gary Yourofsky
“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.” PeopleBeautifulSpiritDesireLove IsWiseObjectsDesire Love Author:Plato