The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately,… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening.… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself,… — Gianfranco Frattini Copy Share Image
The founding fathers gave the House of Representatives one function when it comes to cleansing the office of the presidency and that… — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the… — William Harvey 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
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Lewis Henry Steiner Copy Share Image
The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud,… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I never needed much sleep. But I've always said that is a function of do you enjoy life. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world. — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L.A. I never… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
A Soul Knowing: You are the sum total of the Body, Mind, and Soul, and each of these aspects of you has… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image