“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
“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
“Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"” PeopleIfsBigsLastsFacesSocialAttentionWatchesWifeHeardDogNew YorkExpressionSeasonsFunctionCrowdsCornersSatSighInventorUnnoticedResigned Author:Edmund Fuller
“Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.” KnowsLooksArtDifferentPurposeAsksDogDesignFunctionHotDelightedIntriguedHot Dog Author:Paula Scher
“I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."” UsedCitiesDogGrewGrew UpFunctionAssConstructionNew YorkersKansasAdministrativeKansas City Author:Kevin Sessums
“Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.” GivingChildrenParentDogCatFunctionOur ChildrenDevotion Author:Alex Shakar
“Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.” ImportantJobsHouseDogCatFunctionRingsImportant Jobs Book:A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans Source: A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans
“Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.” ThinkingFirstsWholeStoriesNumbersHappenedDogEvidenceAreasCatFunctionAgentsNativeCompanionEfficientAccurateGrainEgyptPsychicsSnakesTamedWeaselsRodentsMayans Author:William S. Burroughs
“Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.” DogCatFunctionAgentsCompanionEfficientPsychicsSnakesWeaselsRodents Book:The Cat Inside Source: The Cat Inside