Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.
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.
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.
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
there are no inanimate objects ...
When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.