The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time. — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for… — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the… — Robert Tisserand Copy Share Image
It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that,… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car.… — Gary Shapiro Copy Share Image
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function. — Lawrence Bossidy Copy Share Image
My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's… — David Stern Copy Share Image
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
