The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done. — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by… — Adelard of Bath Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity.… — Dennis Ritchie 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
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play. — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive,… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Sweaters in light hues function perfectly as between-season buffers. — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
You love the person for who they are, flaws and all. You can't help who you love, either. It comes from a… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
