Function Quotes
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.
I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
People get trapped in the way things should feel and less focused on the way things should function.
There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.
If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.
I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
Warranty A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.
A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.
For five days, I had no sleep. None. I did not sleep. And the last day, the reason I lasted, I drank 20 Red Bulls, about 20 cups of coffee. I could not function.
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.
When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.
The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.
Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.
I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.
The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.
Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.
A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.
We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.
