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I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. -- Peter Benchley
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. -- Russell Baker
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. -- Michael Polanyi
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. -- Philip Treacy
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. -- Conor Oberst
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
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
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object. -- Darren Criss
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. -- Cassandra Clare
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. -- David Sedaris
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
Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit betterYet they are treated by the meat industry as though they are inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities. -- Emily Deschanel
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. -- George Orwell
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life. -- Joseph Conrad
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world. The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil - it's really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries' folklore. -- Billy Boyd
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. -- Gary Yourofsky
Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible life sounds strange. After all, vitamins are supposed to keep people healthy. Also, they're inanimate objects. But thanks to them I was stuck in the Jackson Center Mall watching my father run around in a bee costume. -- Elizabeth Scott
This is a slippery slope. In addition to that at what point are we going to be okay marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this table or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous. And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman. -- Rebecca Kleefisch
I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't." "There goes my Saturday. -- Cassandra Clare
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly... -- John Galt
I love bringing the inanimate object to life. -- John Lasseter
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. -- Mike Mills
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?' -- Tino Sehgal
It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. -- Jules Verne
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
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
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
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me. -- Michel Faber
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
there are no inanimate objects ... -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities. -- Matthea Harvey
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. -- William Shenstone
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity. -- Isaac Asimov
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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