A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.
Roy H. Williams

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Morrie Schwartz

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
Rene Cassin

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
Michael Behe

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.
H. P. Blavatsky

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
Steve Israel

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
Milan Kundera

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
Bjarne Stroustrup

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
Rick Perry

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
Ned Rorem

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
Fannie Hurst

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

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.
David Neeleman

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
Tim McGraw

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
George Gallup

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

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Franz Liszt