1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects… — Patrick Stewart 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
The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without… — Sakyong Mipham 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 current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My job is not only to give medals, you know, which certainly is part of my function. First and foremost, though, my… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and… — Manish Dayal Copy Share Image
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences. — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function. — Verner Panton Copy Share Image
Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began… — Anne Finger Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. — Marc Ribot Copy Share Image
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the… — Marshall McLuhan 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
Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image