Function Quotes

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Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from… — Martin Filler
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function… — Evgeny Morozov
Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function… — Kevin R. Stone
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled… — Jack London
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome… — David Mitchell
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely… — William Faulkner
...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in… — John Kennedy Toole
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole… — Alan Watts
I live on Earth at present, and I donâ€™t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is… — Vincent Van Gogh
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved… — Henry Miller
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in… — Alan Moore
The government is merely a servantâ€•merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide… — Mark Twain
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the… — Lois McMaster Bujold
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question… — ZoÃ« Heller

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