Quotes About Everyday Objects

#1. I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

Martin Parr

#2. I love the fact that very often the most everyday objects take on another level of importance.

Nick Veasey

#3. Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Gloria Steinem

#4. All witches keep their kisses in everyday objects, so that their hearts won't break too often.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#5. The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.

Margaret Visser

#6. Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.

Fran Lebowitz

#7. Everyday objects shriek aloud.

Rene Magritte

#8. The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

Andy Hobsbawm

#9. A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates' faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

Anna Godbersen

#11. Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.

Alain Aspect

#12. I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves ... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.

Gabriel Orozco

#13. The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#14. It's not the power of the curse, it is the power you give the curse.

Marilyn Kaye

#15. What does it feel like to get shot?"
"I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better.

Gordon Korman

#16. Fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She

Tess Gerritsen

#17. What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.

Bill Cosby

#18. My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

Maira Kalman

#19. There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.

Patrick Hamilton

#20. Lotto once said to her, and she laughed and conceded that she was. She wasn't sure just then if she was telling the truth or if she was lying. Great

Lauren Groff

#21. The Lion and the Fox

Aesop

#22. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#23. With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orhan Pamuk

#24. Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Rene Magritte

#25. The best mistakes are made when the worst of heart breaks occur. When Love is blind and the captive, faithful.

Solange Nicole

#26. I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

Lara Giddings

#27. Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They're able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.

Paola Antonelli

#28. In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

Alexander Rodchenko

#29. For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

Neil MacGregor

#30. With his final blow delivered, he pulls me up toward him, first by my hips, and then by my hair. Groping my breasts and kissing me, he is full of congratulations.
'Well done, Megan, you took your punishment well. Now it's time for your reward.

Felicity Brandon

#31. We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

Alan Stern

#32. I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Cassandra Clare

#33. Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

Karen Blixen

#34. Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

Pope Francis