#function

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #engineers #function #functional #had

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ↗

— George Santayana

#appear #argument #better #function #make

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian. ↗

— Tracy Letts

#family

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anyone #different #else #function #how

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#allied #been #carrying #control #council

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#function #life #no fear #only #secret

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#attention #body #calls #criticism #fulfils

When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#back #become #came #deprived #does