(388 quotes found)
“Having a few pairs of boots, which can go with a variety of lengths, is really functional.”
Valerie Steele
“And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! --J.H. Bumbleshook”
Ambrose Bierce
“Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.”
William S. Burroughs
“It can be taken as that `we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and decide who's an Indian and who's not.'”
Ward Churchill
“But I can't function when I'm calm.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“Whereas the well-functioning executive encourages the best in brains and skills, the one who is paranoid or even less morbidly insecure must have inadequates about him, men who will take punishment.”
Dr. Francis J. Braceland
“We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.”
“Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.”
Rita Mae Brown
“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.”
James Dewar Sr.
