I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

- Bobby Flay

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

- Cyril Connolly

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

- Christian Lous Lange

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

- Charles Duhigg

Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.

- Bellamy Young

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

- Bernadette Devlin

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

- Benjamin Tucker

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

- Buzz Aldrin

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

- Bobby Scott

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

- Angela Davis

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

- Benito Mussolini

If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

- Beck

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

- Beck

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

- Adnan Pachachi

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

- Alastair Reynolds

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

- Ang Lee

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

- A. J. Liebling

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

- Ayn Rand

Very early, it became clear to me that East Germany could not function.

- Angela Merkel