Function Quotes

America should function as a Christian nation.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

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

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

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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.

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.

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.

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated 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.

Dynamism is a function of change.