“Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.” WayWantFeelsHandsTurnsGamesSidesWatchesMiddleObjectsBaseballBallsFingersSensualSparesSpeculationMiddle Finger Book:Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion Source: Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion
“I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.” IfsWantObjectsPrayingCrowdsMinistersPray For Me Author:Edward H. Rulloff
“As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.” KnowsWantWritingMindLinesObjectsProducePicksDiscoveringNot InterestedPredictable Author:Paul Simon
“Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.” MenWantHumansLooksUnderstandingHuman BeingsModernObjectsSatisfiedTreatedBelovedGratificationComradeshipModern Woman Author:Emma Goldman
“If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.” IfsWantDesireObjectsDifficultyDeterminedObsessionAcquireConvinceConvincingConvincing Yourself Book:Get Rich Collection Source: Get Rich Collection
“The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?” PeopleMenWorldWantObjectsHe ManDevilDepressing Book:Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings
“All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.” KnowsMenWorldWantMeanSaidDoneBeautifulArtistMoralObjectsHe ManCommunicateFinishedDamnThings DonePolishedTrue YouDamn ThingsBeautiful Objects Author:John Banville
“The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.” WantNeedsGivingFeelsStuffSinSimpleGracePossibilityObjectsMaterialsCapitalismSillyHeroicUrgencyCivicsSilly Stuff Author:Adam Gopnik
“I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.” WantStillsHomeStuffObjectsConnections Author:Nate Berkus
“When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.” WantObjectsAbstract Author:Claes Oldenburg
“You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.” WantIdeasObjects Author:Claes Oldenburg
“I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object.” PeopleKnowsWantFacesKnow HowObjectsDatingSerials Author:Chris Hardwick
“I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.” WantFeelsStillsWantedObjectsWaveTidal Waves Author:Michelle Huneven
“My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingAbleObjectsProse Author:Pattiann Rogers
“Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.” WorldWantShouldObjectsRelationFriendlyPakistanNeighbourPeace WithinQuaidQuaid Azam Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.” WantTryingLooksStatesMovingDesireInterestingGoneObjectsPaintingLike YouEgoConceptsMuseumsAestheticLive Your LifeObserversHarmonious Author:Zack Snyder
“I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.” PeopleKnowsWantArtSpacePleasureShareObjectsDespairPerceptionArt IsPalestinianBetter Life Author:Elia Suleiman
“So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingMeanPersonsDoeFacesTurnsEffortObjectsWorshipMessagesOrdinaryFreakMessengersOrdinary Life Author:Brad Warner
“Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought and sold just like any object. But prostitutes are people, not objects to be consumed, used and discarded like trash when they are no longer doing what each client/trafficker wants.” PeopleWantGivingTwoUsedSexObjectsMessagesAdultsSacredOur SocietyClientsTrashConsumedProstitutionDiscarded Author:Annie Lobert
“I don't want to be an object of consumption. I like to get out there and participate because I care about it. It's not because I've gotten filthy rich off the hides of young skaters that I feel some sickening obligation to act on, and make myself look like I'm not that bad of a guy. It's because I actually care.” WantFeelsLooksCareYoungGuyRichObjectsObligationConsumptionI CareFilthySkaterBecause I CareFilthy Rich Author:Mike Vallely
“The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.” PeopleWantFirstsObjectsElectionCorruptionIranFedsCensorshipFed UpFree ElectionsEmbezzlement Author:Shirin Ebadi
“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."” IfsWantMindMightJobsUsedTurnsGrowthCan DoObjectsInvolvedCostDrugCreatingAspectMachinesSafetyVery GoodIllObjectivesConsumersScareMilkCowsOrganismsAddictGood JobEcosystemsHormonesDrug AddictHealth And SafetyMonocultureBovineGrowth Hormones Author:Vandana Shiva
“I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.” PeopleWantDesireChoicesGamesUnderstandingChallengesModernHonestObjectsConversationSexualityIntimacyEnlightenedEroticProvocativeMulticulturalIntricacy Author:Esther Perel
“You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.” WantLooksWholeSidesObjectsRoundsWant To See You Author:Dan Mangan
“I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.” WayWantTryingToo MuchObjectsSimplest Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.” PeopleIfsWantCoursesInterestMy OwnViewsObjectsPaintingIntentionPoint Of View Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I want women to be the subject, not the object.” WantSubjectsObjectsI Want A Woman Author:Jill Soloway
“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