#function

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#becomes #books #clearer #consequence #function

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine. ↗

— Cindy Crawford

#apartment #around #basketball #body #functioning

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. ↗

— Angela Davis

#any #between #functions #how #men

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. ↗

— Angela Davis

#function #i #prisons #social #social function

Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#chip #collective #continue #countries #destruction

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it. ↗

— David Fincher

#because #behavior #believe #editorial #function

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#decision-making #decision-making process #decisions #dysfunctional #flawed

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids? ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#children #education #expect #functioning #god

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#bad girl #dysfunctional #girl #her #i

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#apparent #defense #democracy #failures #forces