Funkaliciousness Quotes & Sayings

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine are also only human ourselves. We are distractible, weak, and given to our own concerns. Yet still, to live as a doctor is to live so that one's life is bound up in others' and in science and in the messy, complicated connection between the two It is to live a life of responsibility. The question then, is not whether one accepts the responsibility. Just by doing this work, one has. The question is, having accepted the responsibility, how one does such work well. — Atul Gawande

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook ... it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew. — Bernie Worrell

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful. — James Welch

Tea and mangas instead of coffee and newspapers: something elegant and enchanting, instead of adult power struggles and their sad aggressiveness. — Muriel Barbery

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little. — Paul Dano

Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss ... — Robert Frost

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. — Jack Lynch