#function

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian. ↗

— Tracy Letts

#family

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anyone #different #else #function #how

In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred. ↗

— Michael Behe

#biological #biology #black #box #cell

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated. ↗

— Michael Behe

#every #function #must #order #process

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. ↗

— Clive Bell

#aesthetic #conceive #critic #degree #emotion

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#achieve #am #assure #committee #confirmed

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons. ↗

— Julie Brown

#fun #function #i #i think #icons

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. ↗

— Julie Brown

#catholic #catholic school #dysfunction #family #funny

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#appears #base #challenges #constituency #core