I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
At the same time, you have got these traditional councils. And the challenge is how to make sure that they function together… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four… — Len Cariou Copy Share Image
When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
