Function Quotations | Page 7

It's a function of global demand and what people are willing to pay for it.

It's a function of size. To get a colored boundary, a city must have more than 50,000 in population.

It's a function of the lack of investment in infrastructure.

It's a function of the number of students that come in, and we need to plan for the housing of those students.

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actors course is set even before hes out of the cradle.

This was in essence ... a function of the fans wanting to show their support and love.

We function as an advocacy group in forcing the administration's hand.

We just had to start from scratch. She was very self conscious about the situation because she couldn't smile. She also needed some function back, other than just the cosmetics.

We just recently had a function where we had to go into the student assistance fund to get players some clothes. Some of our kids come from backgrounds where getting a suit on short notice is difficult.

It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms -- the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

It may be the normal cognitive function of the brain that leads to Alzheimer's later in life. This was not a relationship we had even considered.

It's an incredible serve, ... I'm trying to figure out where it is I would need to stand on the court to have the same trajectory. It's not a function of how fast it is because a lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is the main issue because you're lunging, but then it's up. You're sort of diving, but then you can't reach it, even if you dive perfectly and on cue.

It's an incredible serve, ... It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You're lunging, but then it's up. You're sort of diving, but then you can't reach it.

It's an incredible serve. It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You're lunging, but then it's up. You're sort of diving, but then you can't reach it.

It's hard to imagine what life is like when the person you knew as your partner takes on such legendary, mythic dimensions in society. To continue to function to be a beacon, it's a reminder that she was not simply an observer but an active participant who helped shape the movement.

There is very little demand for heating oil at the moment as a function of the weather.

This is the reward. This is the dessert. This is what you get when you've got an outstanding stadium. Now you can function like all the other 31 teams in the National Football League. In fact, you can function better than they can.

This land was historically a wetland, ... Restoration of wetland characteristics and function of this land, as well as others in the South Florida ecosystem, will help to achieve restoration of the Indian River Lagoon and the greater Everglades ecosystem.

They're benefiting from the support of governments and from the support of nongovernmental organizations that are either actively supporting them with money, intelligence and weapons, or allowing them to function on their territory and tolerating, if not encouraging, their activities,

They're clearly providing a service and a marketing function to the investment-banking side of the business, ... You're not going to win a lot of business by saying 'When you come out, I'm going to take a swat at you and make you look like garbage.'

I beg to differ. I respond to what they (council members) want ... When they want me, I'm here. I guess the biggest function I have is to keep them out of trouble.

I can't believe they're making that much money. BUILD has no track record or function in this community.

I don't see how a reporter can function in a sensitive beat without relying on anonymous sources -- even one anonymous source if the reporter has confidence in him.

I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.

For the foreseeable several years, you'll just have the instant-messaging client, as opposed to a function within an application. It will take a while for that type of general-purpose widget to be used,

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

Dynamism is a function of change.

I felt the function of a photograph was to have it seen by as many people as possible and the newspaper is one of the best ways or the magazine.

The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.

Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

If you want to understand function, study structure,

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

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

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

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

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.

The leader of the Taiwan authorities has brazenly decided to seize the function of the council in a dangerous step towards openly violating his pledges. It is our strong will to check secessionist forces.

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be...

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

The January blowout was no doubt mostly a function of record warm weather enticing shoppers out of their homes in much greater numbers than normal for the month.

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.