“I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?” WantHandsLostFeltCan DoFunctionInstinctPhonesReachingPocketsUsualBloodyBereft Book:I've Got Your Number Source: I've Got Your Number
“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.” IfsThinkingGivingStillsI CanFeelingsPainMotherCan DoSleepForgetLevelsBrainEmpowermentFunctionIncrediblesScaryVocabularyBeing A MotherGrumpy Author:Anna Friel
“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.” IfsMenWorldMayHas BeensSeemsMightTogetherHouseCan DoAnimalWonderEnemyDogCreaturesCatFunctionAnimal WorldCat And Dog Author:C. S. Lewis
“Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.” GivingI CanLiteratureCan DoViewsPiecesInformationJudgmentFunctionJournalist Author:Jim Lehrer
“If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.” IfsWantFeelsShouldWellsKindLongCertainCan DoMinesPleaseActivityShould HaveFunctionSexualityPartnersDamnLegalityBodily Functions Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.” IfsFeelsImportantIdeasHomeCan DoToolsFunctionPhonesCellsCell PhoneProsthetics Author:Aimee Mullins
“What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.” PeopleI CanAsksCan DoFunctionAsk Me Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.” MenHumansDoeMadeChoicesCan DoPrinciplesSeeingModernConditionsDogUniversalFunctionInfiniteEnvironmentalBoundariesFallenFiniteAdequateStewardshipEgotismModern ManAutonomous Author:Francis Schaeffer
“Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.” NeedsImportantSometimesPoliticalSocialCan DoOrdinaryFunctionMereWelcomeProseDistractionAgitation Author:Howard Zinn
“Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.” FormCan DoFunctionArchitect Author:Bill Watterson