Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Laurence J. Peter

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
Maya Lin

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
Erno Rubik

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Noel Coward

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
Marcus V. Pollio

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Robert Smithson

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Angela Carter

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Charles Babbage

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Paul Ricoeur

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.
Ernst Mach

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
Courtney Love

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James K. Polk

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
George Henry Lewes

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.
Alan Ladd

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
Maria Mitchell

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
Bobby Darin