Function Quotes

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Form follows function.

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

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

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

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.