Top 500 Function Quotes

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I don’t think it’s the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

I want to have fun. Big Hollywood films can be fun, but you know it’s an industry, and if you don’t function, they send you home.

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

I think that what people want is for government to function… not through temper tantrums and saying we are not going to participate, we are not going to play ball.

I don’t want the baggage of knowing things when I walk on to a set. I am more comfortable being an empty slate, surrendering before a director and writer’s vision. I’ve realised that this is the best way for me to function.

A kiki is any type of social function that’s cute at which at no less than 2 but not more than 10 drag queens are in a room together. It’s super fun.

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

I thought, ‘I don’t really drink that much.’ But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

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 sick.

When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.

Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

I’ve been told that I’m incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn’t function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You’re also more rested – you’re not as reactive.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service – it is mission.

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

When I was in Marine training I memorised ‘The Waste Land,’ which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that’s not the purpose of the world of patents.

For good or for ill, Britain is in some respects moving away from a prime-ministerial system towards a presidential one. This is emphatically not, as is sometimes argued, simply a function of Tony Blair’s personal ambition. The shift towards a more presidential style was already visible under Margaret Thatcher.

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

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it’s also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That’s what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.

I utterly respect that there are lots of people who do service jobs and deserve our respect, because they make our world function.

It’s the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments – and that’s what matters.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

Almost always, great new ideas don’t emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

The body’s immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

Even though I struggle with severe diminished brain function, I take 100 percent responsibility for every word that comes out of my mouth and gladly admit to my mistakes.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I’m driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.

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

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that’s the function of the government.

All this could go tomorrow, and I would still know how to function, because I never had nothing before. I went through the struggle – it was a rough life.

Ideally the performer has a special function. Which is to bring the listener to the edge of that experience and to open the doors of this perception in such a way that those who wish to enter can.

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

Football is a team game, and I just want to function as part of the team.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

When your back is against the wall, your brain has to function at a high level.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America’s action film.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

The only serious function films can serve is to act as a record of their times.

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