Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties. – Ashley Montagu
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
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur. – Edmund Husserl
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body. – George Herbert Mead
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. – Edgard Varese
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I’m not a collector, and I’m not particularly attached to objects. – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. – Carroll O’Connor
In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We’re ransom objects. – Lynsey Addario
In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects. – Octavio Paz
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that’s attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. – Stephen Greenblatt