Quotes of: Functional Keyword

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Garrison Keillor

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Pierre Bourdieu

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

Julie Brown

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Tom Robbins

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Ang Lee

Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.

Life

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

Daniel J. Bernstein

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fuller

She hardly ever began conversations with strangers just to talk. It was not a matter of shyness. For her, a conversation had a straightforward function. How do I get to the pharmacy? or How much does the hotel room cost? Conversation also had a profe...

The Girl Who Played with Fire

I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace ...

All Those Vanished Engines

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you d...

Toni Morrison

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Allan Bloom

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

Rita Mae Brown

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

Geoffrey West

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Le Corbusier

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

Dave Holland

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

Cristina Saralegui

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Mailer

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Ned Rorem

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Rudolf Bing