A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
I wait all year for the colder seasons, just so that when I wear my Hogwarts scarf it's functional as well as fashionable.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions...
The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
