#function

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#beauty #better #even #feminine #follows

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#function #given #interpretation #power #prevails

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate. ↗

— Will Oldham

#admirable #being #functional #little #pirate

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#change #could #functions #human #meanings

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#been #fooling #forever #function #god

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. ↗

— John Grierson

#capitalist #central #entering #function #individual

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#families #good #good actors #number #pretty

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#contrary #fiction #functions #genre #i

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#dying #even #favor #function #grant

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means