Quotes of: Functional Keyword

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

Jack Dee

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

J. William Fulbright

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Jaime Lerner

One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.

Gary Johnson

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

Gerry Spence

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Hank Johnson

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Louise Slaughter

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

Noah Feldman

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Robert Rauschenberg

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

Arlen Specter

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Bat for Lashes

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

Earle Brown

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

Herb Alpert

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert A. Bartlett

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

William T. Vollmann

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

Luc Montagnier

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Marya Mannes

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Salvador Dali