(388 quotes found)
“Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?”
Charles Eames
“Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.”
William M. Holden
“OF COURSE THE LAWS ARE ALWAYS FUNCTIONAL . THE ONLY QUESTION IS FOR WHOM?”
Loesje
“Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.”
Walter Kerr
“Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals. Nature uses both kingdoms to form all existing combustible mat”
Antoine Lavoisier
“A functioning police state needs no police.”
William S. Burroughs
“EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition."I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant; "eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."”
Ambrose Bierce
“If an adult gets depressed and loses a year of function, they can generally get back close to where they were, but if a kid loses a year, it's really hard to catch up again in terms of development.”
Dr. Kelly N. Botteron
