Direct Object

Famous quotes containing the words direct and/or object:

“Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)