Fun Quotes

Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
Bernard De Voto
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Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
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
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended - Not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Barber B. Conable, J
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Sir Thomas Beecham
Heinrich heine - the fundamental evil of the world arose from the...
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
Mary wilson little - there is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the...
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
Thomas Hardy
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
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
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.
Clive
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.
Sun - Tzu
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
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
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High - Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - If totally different in form - From all the romantic architecture of the past.
Dan Cruickshank
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
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.
Raymond Loewy
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
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little
Funny - Peculiar or funny - Ha - Ha.
Ian Hay
Funny is an attitude.
Flip Wilson
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvie
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Are we having fun yet.
Carol Burnett
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.
Jim We
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.
W, Willard Wirtz
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.
Mark Twain
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles Schwa
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
Joe Namath
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.
Robin Tyle
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co - Dependent.
Berton Averre
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
Bernard Iddings Bell
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
Author Unknown
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....
John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.
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
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Dennis Mille