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
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
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
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
We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however… — Ernest Starling 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
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
Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on… — Auberon Waugh 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
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
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
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
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
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
People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other. — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
