In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Now, they invent them deliberately just… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage,… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I'm pretty fit, naturally. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well and I think it has an effect… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child -… — James Dean 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
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process. — Elton John Copy Share Image
Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
