Functionless Quotes

#1. Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#2. I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Jennifer Esposito

#4. He smiled at me, and that smile
he just gets in. His smile did it every time.

Jenny Han

#5. We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

Theodore Zeldin

#6. Sia's introspective, not depressing. There's a difference.

Heather Demetrios

#7. The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

Jim Rohn

#8. Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

Doug Stanton