Function Quotes

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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. — Angela Davis
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for… — Evan Davis
I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of… — Cat Deeley
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… — Karen Duffy
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home,… — George Eliot
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be… — Umberto Eco
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. — Thomas A. Edison
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. — Havelock Ellis
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the… — Havelock Ellis
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… — Brian Eno
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the… — Brian Eno
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork… — R. Lee Ermey
When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a… — Siobhan Fahey
When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when… — David Fincher
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art… — Ernst Fischer
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure… — Bobby Flay
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. — E. M. Forster
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These… — Jurgen Habermas
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. — Mark Haddon

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