Functionality Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. — Sarah Waters

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way. — Jonathan Rosen

A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion. — Zack W. Van

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. — Jazz Feylynn

Culture is sustained in our synapses ... It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers. — Nicholas Carr

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation. — Jaggi Vasudev

Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles? — Stephen King

Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way. The sleepy crease of his eyes from his permanent high. Connie paled in comparison: I didn't really believe that friendship could be an end in itself, not just the background fuzz to the dramatics of boys loving you or not loving you. — Emma Cline

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives. — Ed Parker

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation. — Gregory Maguire

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are. — Felix Baumgartner

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed. — Giulio Douhet

There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content. — Robert Redford

Love is in the giver, not the gift. — William Sloane Coffin

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. — Clifton Fadiman