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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." »Barber B. Conable, Jr
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"...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art." »John W.N. Sullivan
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"All you get from a circular argument is dizzy." »Darrin Bell
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"Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one." »Charles De Gaulle
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"Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." »St. Augustine
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." »Saint Augustine
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"Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time." »Robin Green
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"Form follows function." »Louis Henri Sullivan
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"To live is to function. That is all there is in living." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function." »Georges Clemenceau
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"Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open." »Thomas Dewar
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"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." »Jack London
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"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." »Unknown
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"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." »Lester R Bittel
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." »Max Eastman
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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." »Unknown
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"The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life." »W. Edward Brown
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"The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment." »Dave Barry
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"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent." »Henry Commager
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"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. (on those behind the 911 attacks)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." »An Wang
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"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought." »Sir Thomas Beecham
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"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer
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"Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other." »Raymond Loewy
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"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent." »Henry Commager
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." »Frank Herbert
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"Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated." »Miguel de Unamuno
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"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." »Ralph Nader
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better." »George Santayana
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