“The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.” LightMysteryFunctionMake Sense Author:Nadine Gordimer
“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.” MindBodyProcessBrainGenerationsMysteryElementsFunctionCompareFeedingAbsorbingResumesEthereal Book:Essays, lectures and orations Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“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
“I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. If you're going to read a quick mystery novel to keep you amused while you're traveling, it's fine.” IfsNeedsBookNovelMysteryFineFunctionInventionTechnologicalBetter OffReservedTextbooksAmusedSupplementsDownloadsUpdatesMystery Novels Author:Art Spiegelman
“We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.” LooksWonderMysteryAwarenessFunctionDancingDanceVarietySensationsAffirmationSpectatorsVigorImpartDance LifeWonder Of LifeDance Is Life Author:Martha Graham
“Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.” HumansJobsSpiritualLife IsSpiritualityHuman BeingsMysteryFunctionProfoundWideRealmsOccupation Book:Think on these things Source: Think on these things
“The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.” TwoDifferentPhilosophyPoliticalOpinionMysteryIntellectualStandardsEconomicsTasksWeightFunctionCustomersPreservesBusinessmanMottoHostilityPopular Opinion Author:Bertrand de Jouvenel