A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave… — Jane Heap Copy Share Image
Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively. — Ken Venturi Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism,… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil:… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L.A. I never… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to… — Virginia Henderson Copy Share Image
At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
