Functional Quotes

177 quotes by 168 authors

I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk… — Steven Hall
How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional… — Kamila Shamsie
I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of… — Lauren Willig
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw… — Natalie Goldberg
But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else. — Helen Fielding
What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to… — Ned Vizzini
I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know? — Ned Vizzini
But the original was there as wellâ€”more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep… — Sarah Dessen
I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am. — Rachel Vincent
But grieving people are selfish. They wonâ€™t let you comfort them and they say you donâ€™t understand and they make you feel useless when all… — Melina Marchetta
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal… — Miyamoto Musashi
Jacks stood beside her. Instead of saying anything, she felt his fingers trace up her palm and then lace into hers. He had taken her… — Scott Speer
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior. — Martin Luther
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on… — Joichi Ito
My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical. — Joseph Altuzarra
We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco. — Cesar Pelli
The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would describe the bottle as well thought out, logical, sparing of… — Raymond Loewy
Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in… — David Perlmutter

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