The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
G. K. Chesterton
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A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs
Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Sleeping is like eating. It is performing a biological function that is required.
Stephen Sheldon
They can fail to function properly, which can lead to a fire or explosion.
Jeff Berino
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall
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.
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.
Dave Barry
It hit hard. I'm in another zone. I was so distraught, then I was in a zone. I'm just trying to function.
Kym Bernache
Their heart function was normal.
Leslie Leinwand
Not only can you see the anatomy of the brain, you get robust information about the function of the brain and other organs and how they are functioning.
David Weber
Obviously mobility is important in the function of everyday society.
Don Morgan
The market function in technology is undergoing fundamental change.
Michael Gerard
It's the best evidence yet that they are integrating and functioning. It's a nice advance.
Irving Weissman
The functioning of this clock was probably known to a very small group of people.
Harald Meller
What Merkel is trying to do is to restore to some extent that balancing function within Europe and between Europe and the U.S..
Katinka Barysch
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Michel Foucault
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It?s a great space. It?s a function hall that can be used for community events.
Gary Dodds
She has had and has a great deal of difficulty functioning in life in general.
Jonathan Crisp
One wonders sometimes if they understand anything you are saying. It would appear that this is a function of their brain at that time.
David Skuse
She's really, really athletic and she's got an athletic mind. You can put her anywhere and she'll function well.
Brenda Hadwin
What I'm doing is called green flying. I have no function. I have a credential. But I'm doing nothing.
Tony Wyllie
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.
Robert H. Jackson
Everybody gets different guidance depending on what their function is.
Allen Benson
Here was an actual functioning operating system, and it worked.
Peter Salus
New players will exploit the disruptive power of the internet and change the form and function of television forever.
William Cooper
It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
It was capable of functioning as designed.
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Crime is not always a function of size and density and people being packed in sardines.
Andrew Karmen
I think oversight is a function of any committee and keeps everybody honest.
Charles Farley
I'm an order person. But there is a certain amount of chaos in the world. Somewhere in between those things we function.
Tanja Softic
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Amy Goodman
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
David Brinkley
Good nutrition and exercise improve the function of the whole body in every way.
Lauren Thomas
Our change in rating is primarily a function of near-term valuation.
Peter Nesvold
That's never been done before. Here are mice walking around with an Alzheimer's brain and yet totally normal function.
Dale Bredesen
It became clear to him that he would have difficulty functioning as an FDNY chaplain, ... There has been no prior indication that he held those views.
Nicholas Scoppetta
There is very little demand for heating oil at the moment as a function of the weather.
Mark Keenan
Tell us what you absolutely have to have to function.
Ray Graham
Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
Frederick Wiseman
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich
In a new museum we could plan how all of the areas function together.
Terry Mulkey
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
David C. Mccullough
The government continues to function properly and we continue to work as government.
Thabo Mbeki
Mote's function is doing the research, not advocating which (method) can or cannot be used but which is most effective, and which has adverse effects on the environment.
Rich Pierce
After a year of working together, DaimlerChrysler has concluded that its automotive businesses can best function as individual divisions.
Jim Holden
The brace didn't function well in this environment and should have done better than it did, frankly.
Dr. Lonnie Paulos
We play the Internet through Internet infrastructure companies. Their function is moving data.
Kevin Landis
As a function of us wanting to believe we can cheer our team on to victory, we feel much closer to those individuals.
John Tauer
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Sir Thomas Beecham
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
Henry Commager
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier
There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.
Livia Landry
I think it was a function of his longevity with the firm and his contributions to the firm in terms of bringing clients in the office.
Jeff Kennedy
The fewer carriers you have, the less opportunity you have for the marketplace to function properly.
Carl Hilliard
There is tremendous displeasure with the function and dysfunction of the government and the Palestinian Authority.
Hanan Ashrawi
Our main desire is to get the board back up and functioning properly.
Van Shaver
America should function as a Christian nation.
Randall Terry
You can measure the energy as a function of radius.
Carl Grillmair
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave Barry
It's a signal of increasing confidence and optimism in how the auto side is functioning.
Ursula Moran
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
These are improvements, It is too early to speak about cognitive function.
Dr. Felix Umansky
It had a significant impact on our ability to communicate and function.
Craig Harvey
If this was a proper functioning democracy this government would have been kicked out long ago.
Jonathan Moyo
It's a function of global demand and what people are willing to pay for it.
Michael Burdette
He's been clear of asthma for four years now, ... His pulmonary function tests are clear.
Sandra Richards
Found the family functioning very well as a family.
Doris Meissner
It needs a mix of populations. It's got to be a mix of different age groups, economic groups and ethnic groups to really function.
Frank Gehry
Michael (Hyman) arrived with a true understanding of how a children's department should function in a JCC, based on his experience in Buffalo.
Jill Davidson
This facility was not supposed to function as it does today.
Henry Nutbrown
The only thing it does is patch that single function.
Tom Liston
Increased hiring is across the board in regard to business size and function.
Kevin Hewerdine
We want to be able to introduce a desired function into the proteins.
Yasuo Yoshikuni
The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it.
Frank Norris
It creates twice the number of dirty dishes. It looks really sharp when it's cleaned, but it doesn't function well.
Richelle Cline
The system of power distribution does not function. All power rests with one man only.
Vladan Batic
The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.
Mayor Michael Amabile
This was in essence ... a function of the fans wanting to show their support and love.
Stuart Backerman
What the fringe does is essentially function as a large-scale co-op.
Lawrence Kampf
The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.
Valerie Solanas
Being able to function. Being at the peak of what you can do or at the peak of what you think you should be.
American Society
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It's a function of the lack of investment in infrastructure.
Mark Keenan
I felt like I'd lost control of my leg; I didn't have normal function in it.
Dirk Johnson
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
Lord Hailsham
Once more in Chile we can happily affirm that there is equality before the law and that the courts of justice are functioning impeccably.
Osvaldo Puccio
We are functioning in a support role for the county.
Tommy Gibbons
I see our function as two fold - to bring art in and to help the arts that are within the community to find audiences.
Kathy Stevens
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
Georges Clemenceau
It's not just a filtering function.
Larry Deutsch
The dogs may perform well in one environment, but the minute you change the look, there's a big enough difference that the dogs won't be able to function anymore.
Paul Knutson
The country cannot stop functioning.
Saad Hariri
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
Herbert Simon
It's such a natural fit for us. After all, that's our job in any accident: to function as the physician's eyes, ears and hands.
Alex Mcleod
If we reduce assignments and make changes, it can function. But you can't put two quarts of milk in a one-quart bottle.
Fire Chief Dennis Baron
These cells have to die, because if they didn't the heart would not function properly.
Michael Kotlikoff
The question one should ask is whether this ties into the education function of the university.
Rusty Depass
We are being harmed because our government is not functioning at 100 percent.
Lois Perrin
We see slippage in retail construction as a function of increases in energy costs, which cuts into discretionary spending.
Cliff Brewis
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Murray Kempton
He is very high functioning; most of these kids are not.
John Maloney
Form follows function.
Louis Henri Sullivan
We are having difficulty eating, sleeping and even functioning every day.
Peggy Cohen
When agents used the back button on the browser [rather than the application's back function], sometimes the application behaved oddly.
John Kellington
As a chaplain he would be required to administer to all of our people, and his expressed views make it clear to me that he would not be able to perform that function with any credibility.
Nicholas Scoppetta
You go look at the Academies and their school is functioning.
Stephen Brown
There are different cowboy boots. There's fashion with function and the boot for utility. Basically, it's Fifth Avenue or fashion in the Western world.
Betty Rogers
I talked with the people down there this morning and they said he is functioning fine in the institution.
Fred Scaletta
They're all in different stages of critical. A couple of areas are failing and a couple more were not functioning as they should so they were put on the ticket to be fixed.
Eric Quinn
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