Inanimate Objects Quotations

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

there are no inanimate objects ...

Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Is Art worth dying for? Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.