Fun Quotes
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.Jim We
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.Joe Namath
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.Jesse Louis Jackson
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.Andrew A. Rooney
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.Johann Huizinga
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.Norman Maile
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes".
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Girls just want to have funds.Adrienne E. Gusoff
The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.Jack London
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.Thomas Dewa
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.Raymond Loewy
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all - Inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.Phiroz Mehta
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?Katharine Graham
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.Quentin Crisp
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Funny is an attitude.Flip Wilson
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
