Function Quotes

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

You can still function as a living ruin.

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

Dynamism is a function of change.

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.

Form follows finances instead of function.

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.