Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Denby

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

Artur Schnabel

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

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

Bill Gates

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

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

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.

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.

We need to make it a more functional area.

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.

Brian Kernighan

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

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

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.

What do you mean, the system functions as designed?

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.

Alfred Hitchcock

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.

Peter Salovey

Our primary function is teaching and research, and there's no good reason not to do that,

Our mainland policies remain the same. We still hope the two sides can sit down and make some breakthroughs in functional talks.

Martha Stewart

Our new home improvement series will inspire and inform, while mentoring and teaching valuable life skills, from repairing brickwork, laying flooring, painting rooms and installing a functional and lovely kitchen,

We need someone who understands the Premiership - its demands, its pressures, the way it functions with its built-in risk of relegation. Probably, we need someone who actually knows what it is to work in this environment.

We need a governor who will function and treat his position as a job. It's not the position you take on issues, it's about being able to get things done.

Robert Kelly

Longer term, the vision is to put all functions on the Internet.

Long before they ever get to the point they need to be taken out from the standpoint of a structural deficiency, they end up being replaced because of a functional deficiency.

Michael Leunig

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish.

Kate Bush

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

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,

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

Douglas Adams

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

Claudia Cardinale

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

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

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.