“I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.” WellsBitsFunctionWorkaholicDomesticity Author:Jenny Slate
“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.” FormOrderBitsImaginationCommonHalfSawsFrontsCreationDaughterFunctionCommon SenseAspirationDozenDelightfulFadedMultiplicityAmiableParlorScandalousDandy Author:Vera Nazarian
“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” PeopleWritingMindLittlesSoulCareAbleBitsJusticeHellWallPleaseBeatsFunctionPaintScaredRefuseDon't CareSmokeYour SoulI Don't CareStaringCeilingsLittle MindsExperience Yourself Author:Albert Camus
“A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.” LittlesBitsLittle BitIdealsFunctionLibrary Author:Umberto Eco
“Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.” PeopleImportantBitsFunctionPerformingHorizon Author:Wole Soyinka
“In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.” LittlesTwoYoungWinningBitsPartyIssuesAliveGenerationsStageLittle BitThirdsFunctionElectionObviousCorporateAgendasProgressiveTabooOligarchyRiggedThird PartiesYoung GenerationTwo Party System Author:Ralph Nader
“I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.” ThinkingArtBitsDarkComedyArt IsFunction Author:David Shrigley
“There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.” IfsThinkingWould BeUniverseBitsMysteryPossibilityMassUniversalFunctionTwentiesChainsCellsComplexityMinimumMoleculesProteinMystery Of LifeProton Author:Dean Koontz
“We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients.” LittlesTwoBodyNightBitsNaturalSleepLittle BitThirdsFunctionPatientDiariesInsomniaCatchingTwo DaysCatching Up Author:Shelby Harris
“Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?" "I have no confidence in you, Ram," said the expendable. "Well, thanks." "You're welcome.” WellsSaidBitsLossLosingFunctionWelcomeCelebrateThanksIronyRhetoricalRamsNo ConfidenceThanks YouExpendablesYou Re WelcomeRhetorical Question Book:Pathfinder Source: Pathfinder
“Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.” PeopleWholeMomentsFactsRealityBitsMemoriesCreativePiecesInformationExpressionTheoryFindingsDiscoveryFunctionTechniqueExplosionsSpontaneityPersonal FreedomBits And PiecesCreative ExpressionFrame Of Reference Book:Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques