Function

Famous quotes containing the word function:

“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)