Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Denby

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people.

Artur Schnabel

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Brian Wilson

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

Brian Kernighan

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Kate Bush

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

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

We need to make it a more functional area.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

It has taken me a long time to work out the function of ex-boyfriends, at least for me: how they can help you work out what you want from life and from a partner by showing you what you don't. If a man is your ex, it's better all round if he was not Mr. Right.

Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Hank Johnson

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.

We do functions for all sorts of student organizations because of the slide and sunning patio.

We play the Internet through Internet infrastructure companies. Their function is moving data.

I don't think we would limit her. If the swelling goes down and the function is there, she would be good to go for however much she would last and however much they would need her. ... There wouldn't be any limitations.

Stephen Fleming

I don't function 100% because i sleep too much

Stephen King

I can function and I couldn't have ever done that before this treatment,

George Mastras

The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about what's going on with the characters.

Douglas Adams

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

What we're suggesting here is we have a good uniform, plentiful supply of clean, young functional islet cells.

Claudia Cardinale

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

There are still places where people think the function of the media is to provide information.

Myles Munroe

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

What do you mean, the system functions as designed?

I think we got a lot of good robots this year that are functional robots.

If these functions are transferred to another agency...are we saving money or just transferring costs?

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

Robert Jackson

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Irwin Winkler

Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

Alfred Hitchcock

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.