no matter how useful the electricity may be, it needs connections to function
When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.
The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader."- Capt. Bligh(ret.)
Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.
That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.
