There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words. — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors… You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in… — John Divola Copy Share Image
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions. — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be… — Roderick T. Long Copy Share Image
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
We can study various psychic functions and also the more primitive sensory functions, such as seeing, hearing, and so on, which constitute… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly. — Adnan Pachachi Copy Share Image
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function. — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
