Top 33 Inanimate Quotes

When I opened my gym, I got rid of the scales! Stepping on a scale empowers an inanimate object – every time you get on it, you turn over the helm of your emotional well being to something that doesn’t care about you.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

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.

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.

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.

There’s some sort of unspoken license… when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

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.

I’m fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.

We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work of our invisible God. We have become so accustomed to trees, mountains, sky, air, water, flowers, animals, vegetables and people that we no longer see them for what they are – God’s work.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

What my work is about is, ‘Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?’

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.

Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don’t have to always be the white girl’s best friend. I can be the princess. I can make an inanimate object come to life. I can be a little boy. I can be anything.

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They’re a piece of history, someone’s statement and ideas of life.

I’ve always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects.

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

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.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

I hate ladders. I don’t mind heights, but I hate getting hit with ladders and falling into ladders. Anything where there are ladders involved or inanimate, unpredictable objects or multiple people gets dangerous.

I don’t believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

I get in a temper with inanimate objects. I can’t bear plastic. I do get in a complete rage with something that’s been shrink-wrapped.

Never fight an inanimate object.

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Pronouns really don’t matter in a song – ‘I’ or ‘he’ or ‘she’ or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

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

I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that’s scary.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

I believe inanimate objects have a spirit.

I don’t fall in love with inanimate objects. I don’t bond with them. I only fall in love with people.