Beak/functions

Famous quotes containing the words beak and/or functions:

“His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,

looking for something, something, something.
Poor bird, he is obsessed!”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)