Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The future of human relationships will be directly related to the cerebral functions. For this reason it is already a fundamental thing.… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable. — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms… — Matthew Rabin Copy Share Image
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you don't do any self-examinations or see a doctor ever, you'll live forever. That's how you do it. The diagnosis is… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt. — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
