#function

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#before #better #functioning #getting #hope

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#causes #damaged #did #discovering #function

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#families #good #good actors #number #pretty

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#contrary #fiction #functions #genre #i

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#dying #even #favor #function #grant

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#almost #always #cowardice #functioning #imagination

The goal of physiological research is functional nature. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

#goal #nature #physiological #research

Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#chip #collective #continue #countries #destruction

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#aspect #beautiful #being #consideration #family

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #engineers #function #functional #had