I have always been drawn to the beauty of things designed to function. Mixing technical pieces with more traditional prints and patterns… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function — Gottfried Bohm Copy Share Image
It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul. The body is always doing something. Every minute… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. — Hannah Arendt 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
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image