Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness… — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity,… — Gracia Martore Copy Share Image
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its… — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge… — Homer Smith Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I met Glenn [ Greenwald] briefly in 2009. We were both guests on Real Time With Bill Maher. I was the show's… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
“Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without… — Jim George Copy Share Image
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is… — Tony Hendra Copy Share Image
The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress. — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in. — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful yet we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most: the… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image