Function Quotes (page 25)

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• play
• physics
• wellness

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Evelyn Glennie

• our
• machine
• doing

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly. Sarah Michelle Gellar

• value
• bear
• failure

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. Timothy Geithner

• law
• presidents
• functional

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. Garet Garrett

• alone
• god
• humanity

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. George Gallup

• respect
• look
• forecast

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith

• spiritual
• intuition
• genius

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller

• education
• strong
• political

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues. J. William Fulbright

• brain
• thinking
• pain

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. Anna Friel

• painters
• excite
• modeled

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. Lucian Freud

• stately
• regulators
• has beens

The regulation of medicine has been a State function. Barney Frank

• education
• powerful
• power

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. Michel Foucault

• art
• feeling
• men

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. E. M. Forster

• time
• intelligent
• mind

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• change
• society
• help

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. Ernst Fischer