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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. -- Cassandra Clare
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates. -- Victor Hugo
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir. -- Wallace Stevens
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I love bringing the inanimate object to life. -- John Lasseter
I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. -- Peter Benchley
It's wrong for kids to be angry about something inanimate. -- Michael Laws
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. -- Carl von Clausewitz
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. -- Michael Polanyi
When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life. -- Mitt Romney
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. -- Russell Baker
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. -- Philip Treacy
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. -- Michael Behe
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. -- William Dean Howells
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. -- Mike Mills
It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. -- Jules Verne
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. -- Conor Oberst
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it. -- Tim Burton
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. -- Tom Wolfe
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. -- Orison Swett Marden
It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor. -- Jeff Dunham
We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object. -- Henry Selick
I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza. -- Jill Scott
Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and in all cases, their size and their material construction are totally different matters even though they affect one another. -- John Tyler Bonner
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it. -- Charles Krauthammer
there are no inanimate objects ... -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things. -- Mary Webb
Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. -- Lord Byron
I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities. -- Matthea Harvey
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object. -- Darren Criss
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. -- William Shenstone
there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it. -- Josephine Pinckney
When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. -- Mary Shelley
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate. -- Bruce Sterling
most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. -- John Dewey
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. -- Philip K. Dick
Is Art worth dying for? Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for. -- George Clooney
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?' -- Tino Sehgal
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring -- Nelly Furtado
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources. -- Henry David Thoreau
From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence. -- Bryan Kest
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate. -- Bill Mollison
Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously. -- Fanny Fern
While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy. -- William Butler Yeats
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. -- David Sedaris
There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy. -- Jay DeFeo
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. -- William Hazlitt
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. -- Linus Pauling
We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity. -- Isaac Asimov
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. -- Loren Eiseley
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. -- Catherine Ponder
Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands. -- Donald L. Hicks
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects. -- Josef Sudek
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move. -- Lodovico Dolce
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. -- Susan Hill
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole. -- Edith Stein
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort. -- Thomas Carlyle
No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies. -- Sarada Devi
I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Iâ??ve named everything that Iâ??ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night. -- Amy Sedaris
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life. -- Richard Reti
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership. -- John Ralston Saul
As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts. -- Sakyong Mipham
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter. -- Edgar Allan Poe
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work. -- Aristotle
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. -- David Hume
Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order. -- Josef Muller-Brockmann
English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what. -- Tomson Highway
The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh. -- Amadeo Bordiga
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An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it. -- John Dewey

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