We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects. . . and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.
I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.
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.
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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.
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.