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)

“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim to all his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functions ... extends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)