#function

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#book #character #contents #first #function

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#listening #more #music #process #reading

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#demands #explain #function #government #invent

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free. ↗

— Stan Kenton

#becomes #dance #dance music #free #function

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

#feel #function #make #men #only

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#continue #create #depths #embraces #form

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#difficult #doing #enough #function #i

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#again #always #been #concert #exactly

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#best #functions #good #good plan #heart

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#about #biological #come #computer #computers