Functional Analysis Quotes

#1. My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

Yann Martel

#2. The affective modalities of semiosis, in Halliday's functional analysis, are most concerned with the imaginative and the personal functions. Consider for example the ways in which the dialogism I have described above accord with Halliday's insistence that the

Anonymous

#3. As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Annie Dillard

#4. He perceived that this memory-jumbled rag-bag of material was in fact the very heart of her, her self-portrait, the way she looked in the mirror when nobody else was in the room ...

Salman Rushdie

#5. One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

Gautama Buddha

#6. It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

Havelock Ellis

#7. Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!

Robert Thier

#8. I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Nothing about this thing we have is a bad thing. I'm not gonna lie about it: I don't deserve you. I'm sure as hell not good enough for you, but as long as you want me, I'm all yours.

Abbi Glines

#10. When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.

Edward Brooke

#11. Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been 'outrun' by fear rather than having 'run out' of heart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

Daphne Guinness

#13. There is always a price to pay for badassery. Neo was a badass in the Matrix and the Matrix Reloaded, but the price he had to pay was The Matrix Revolutions.

Kevin Hearne

#14. I think it's very unhealthy to claim you love someone you don't know.

Helen McCrory

#15. Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.

George Washington Carver

#16. There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.

Gloria Estefan

#17. Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

Janine Di Giovanni