One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity,… — Gracia Martore Copy Share Image
The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its… — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with… — Lorraine Moller Copy Share Image
... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead… — Berti Vogts Copy Share Image
Even though a definite article is supposed to bring something into focus, Donald Trump uses it in a very general way. It's… — Ben Zimmer Copy Share Image
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover,… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
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