Funk Bros Quotes & Sayings

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot. — Paul Watson

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes. — Patrick Modiano

He mockingly gave her the raised eyebrow back. "You never gave me an answer."
"Yeah. I did. In fact, my exact words were 'no'."
"Yes, but I've chosen to ignore that until I hear what I want. — Shelly Laurenston

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away. — Kristy Pellegrin

Necessity and life are so intimately related and connected that life itself is threatened where necessity is altogether eliminated. For the elimination of necessity, far from resulting automatically in the establishment of freedom, only blurs the distinguishing line between freedom and necessity. (Modern discussions of freedom, where freedom is never understood as an objective state of human existence but either presents an unsolvable problem of subjectivity, of an entirely undetermined or determined will, or develops out of necessity, all point to the fact that the objective, tangible difference between being free and being forced by necessity is no longer perceived.) — Hannah Arendt

In the long run, the map was a triumph of marketing as much as empirical science. It helped a good idea find a wide audience. — Steven Johnson

How can I be assured the apple you bring me is Idunn's?
Well, it'll be golden, for one thing, and after you take a bite of it you should feel pretty fucking good. — Kevin Hearne

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives. — Martin Schulz

2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way. — Alvaro Mutis

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. — Donny Osmond

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. — Brad Pitt

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that. — Leah Remini

I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it. — Raghuram Rajan