Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

You know my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession but on Sundays he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding and it was a means of communication and affection a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

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

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Dynamism is a function of change.

The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment which I hate to do but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

The bass player's function along with the drums is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business and it is cross-functional.

Negro banks as a rule have failed because the people taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere withdrew their deposits.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

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

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

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things this function can be more fully performed by this art which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes in galleries on the walls of auction houses and off the walls in museum storage.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.

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.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it.

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.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.