Function Quotes · Page 12

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

— Kehinde Wiley

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

— Tom Stoppard

My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.

— Steve Nash

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

— Joshua Foer

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

— Rita Mae Brown

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

— David Foster Wallace

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

— Alphonso Jackson

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

— Corrie Ten Boom

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of…

— James Joyce

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

— Lucian Freud

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we…

— John Dewey

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

— Aleister Crowley

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

— Katherine Sophie Dreier

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

— John Gimlette

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was…

— Thomas Steinbeck

While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction…

— Volkmar Sigusch

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage…

— Edward Abbey

Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a…

— Sara Little Turnbull

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The…

— H. L. Mencken

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day…

— Michael Merzenich

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing…

— Molly Ivins

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function…

— Isabelle Huppert

“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They…

— Michael J. Nelson

But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of…

— Charles Evans Hughes

When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of…

— Edward T. Hall

You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it…

— Paul Valery

No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we…

— Joseph Paxton

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot…

— Robert J. Havighurst

Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and…

— Zick Rubin

When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…

— David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle…

— Alexander Weinstein

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

— Aristotle

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

— Henri Matisse

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

— Jodi Picoult

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

— Noam Chomsky

Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

— John Taylor Gatto

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

— Emile M. Cioran

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

— Plato

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

— Roman Jakobson