Quotes of: Functional Keyword

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Blaise Pascal

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

Billy Sherwood

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

Benjamin Tucker

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.

Gustave Flaubert

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Germaine Greer

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

George Santayana

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

Howard Hawks

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

Joe Murray

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

David Brooks

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Dick Cavett

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

David Harsanyi

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D.H. Lawrence

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The wisdom of coming in out of the rain is entirely a function of what's waiting for you inside.

John Alejandro King

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Kenneth Burke

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

Keith Haring

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Marina Abramovic

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

Andrew Davies

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Anil Kapoor