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• It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Umbrella, Depravity, Turns

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of the Island”, p.162, Youcanprint

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• They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Silly, Fall

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• Your mind, in order to defend itself starts to give life to inanimate objects. When that happens it solves the problem of stimulus and response because literally if you're by yourself you lose the element of stimulus and response. Somebody asks a question, you give a response. So, when you lose the stimulus and response, what I connected to is that you actually create all the stimulus and response.

  Willi Smith

  Order, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Matter, Pronouns

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• Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

  Mary McGrory

  Proud, Spiteful, Attractive

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• Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Tired, Feet, Bed

  Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.147, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

  Philip Treacy

  Design, Mind, Hats

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• 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

  Book, Ambition, Men

  1905 'Books'.

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• I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

  David Sedaris

  Fool, Ridiculous, Gender

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• 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.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Scared, Chairs

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “Stolen: Number 2 in series”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Running, Father, People

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• Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Use, Clockwork Angel

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Teaching, Mean, Knives

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.

  Jeff Cooper

  Dream, Queens, Exercise

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

  Darren Criss

  Would Be, Objects, Biggest Fear

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• This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can - can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous.

  Rebecca Kleefisch

  Christian, Dog, Men

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 29, 2010.

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• 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

  Baby, Son, Vocabulary

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• 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

  War, Historical, Weapons

  George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.502, epubli

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• 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

  Country, School, Evil

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• 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

  Dog, Cat, Intelligent

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• 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

  Book, New Life, Shelves

  Susan Hill (2010). “Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home”, p.2, Profile Books

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• 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

  Animal, Phones, Cells

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• The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Mistake, Book, Learning

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• We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Natural, Assorted, Humans

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• 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

  Religious, Moon, Support

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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