Function Quotes

This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function as a normal human being.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

The whole function of cities has been transformed.

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to get older.

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.